1943.52.154: Square Double-Tier Mirror with Openwork Decoration of Intertwined Snake-Dragons
Mirrors
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.52.154
- Title
- Square Double-Tier Mirror with Openwork Decoration of Intertwined Snake-Dragons
- Classification
- Mirrors
- Work Type
- mirror
- Date
- 5th-3rd century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204465
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Cast bronze inset with silver bosses and with traces of gilding
- Dimensions
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H. 14.6 x W. 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 5 11/16 in.)
Weight: 452 g
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.52.154
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Jaime Jouris, "Chinese Black Bronze Mirrors: A Preliminary Examination" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, May 1991), Unpublished, passim
- Susan Costello, "An Investigation of Early Chinese Bronze Mirrors at the Harvard University Art Museums" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2005), Unpublished, pp. 1-25 passim
Verification Level
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