Octofoil Mirror with Relief Decoration of Two Phoenixes and Auspicious Flowers

This eight-lobed, circular mirror has a narrow raised outer rim that is completely unembellished. This gives way to a wide inner decorative border that's slightly sunken and embel...

This small circular bronze mirror is slightly irregular in shape and decorated very simply, with radiating lines raised in relief around the central loop handle. Although now cover...

A well-articulated, relief lip encircles the periphery of this circular mirror; on the mirror's decorated back, a single bowstring line rises in relief about one centimeter in from...

A thin, well-defined, relief lip borders this circular mirror's decorated back. The decorative scheme is organized into five concentric rings with the crouching-beast-form boss at ...

Sixteen linked arcs raised in relief comprise the outer border of this circular mirror. The decorative field at the center includes: stylized birds in bead-and-thread-relief; TLV p...

This circular mirror has a wide, flat outer rim embellished with a slightly sunken ring of chevron patterns in thread-relief down the center. This rim gives way to a beveled edge ...

Among the most characteristic and compelling art forms of the Qajar period (1779–1924) in Iran are works in “lacquer.” Technically distinct from East Asian lacquers, these are esse...