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Circular Mirror with Relief Decoration of Real and Fantastic Animals and Auspicious Inscription
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Department of Asian Art
Private Collection (by 1944) gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1944.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Anonymous gift
Title: Circular Mirror with Relief Decoration of Real and Fantastic Animals and Auspicious Inscription
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