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Circular Mirror with Linked Arcs, Four Bosses, Abstract Decoration, and Central Boss in the Form of a Mountain Peak
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This circular bronze mirror has a border of sixteen unembellished linked arcs. The decorated field is sunken. There is a very narrow inner border of radiating straight lines. Within the main decorated field there are four main bosses, each one on a circular field with a ten-point star pattern. Between the four bosses, there are scrolling lines in relief that connect smaller bosses, which lack the circular field surrounding the larger bosses. The central knob suggests a mountain with several peaks. The reflecting side of the mirror has been highly polished.
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 Linked Arcs, Four Bosses, Abstract Decoration, and Central Boss in the Form of a Mountain Peak
Description:
This circular bronze mirror has a border of sixteen unembellished linked arcs.
The decorated field is sunken.
There is a very narrow inner border of radiating straight lines.
Within the main decorated field there are four main bosses, each one on a circular field with a ten-point star pattern.
Between the four bosses, there are scrolling lines in relief that connect smaller bosses, which lack the circular field surrounding the larger bosses.
The central knob suggests a mountain with several peaks.
The reflecting side of the mirror has been highly polished.
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