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Lobed Circular Mirror with Scrolling Peony Decor
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This eight-lobed mirror has a flat, undecorated rim of medium width. The decorated field is slightly sunken, and within each lobe there are three stylized cloud-like elements. The main decorative field is encircled by a border of small beads and filled with designs of scrolling peonies. Nestled within the floral design is a cast character reading "Han" (Korea). A decorative element of combined lines and beads surrounds the loop knob at the center. A five-character inscription was incised into the otherwise plain border post-casting.
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: Lobed Circular Mirror with Scrolling Peony Decor
Description:
This eight-lobed mirror has a flat, undecorated rim of medium width.
The decorated field is slightly sunken, and within each lobe there are three stylized cloud-like elements.
The main decorative field is encircled by a border of small beads and filled with designs of scrolling peonies.
Nestled within the floral design is a cast character reading "Han" (Korea).
A decorative element of combined lines and beads surrounds the loop knob at the center.
A five-character inscription was incised into the otherwise plain border post-casting.
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