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Circular Mirror with Decoration of Linked Arcs, Quatrefoil, and Stylized Foliage, and with Inscription
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This circular mirror has a broad, raised, undecorated outer border. This gives way to a beveled edge that leads into a large, slightly sunken decorated field. There are short, radiating lines in thread relief that separate the designs within the decorative field. A long inscription raised in relief and arranged in a circle along the periphery of the field encircles inked arches in relief that surround a quatrefoil within a plain, undecorated ring. The knob is hemispherical. The reflecting side of the mirror has been polished clean of its patina.
Department of Asian Art
Edmund Lin (1928-2006; Professor Harvard Medical School) Boston; by bequest to the Harvard Art Museum
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Edmund Chi Chien Lin
Title: Circular Mirror with Decoration of Linked Arcs, Quatrefoil, and Stylized Foliage, and with Inscription
Description:
This circular mirror has a broad, raised, undecorated outer border.
This gives way to a beveled edge that leads into a large, slightly sunken decorated field.
There are short, radiating lines in thread relief that separate the designs within the decorative field.
A long inscription raised in relief and arranged in a circle along the periphery of the field encircles inked arches in relief that surround a quatrefoil within a plain, undecorated ring.
The knob is hemispherical.
The reflecting side of the mirror has been polished clean of its patina.
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