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Circular Mirror with Relief Decoration of a Peony Scroll
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This circular bronze mirror has a plain outer border of medium width. The main decorated field is circular, slightly sunken, and bordered by a circle of tiny beads. The main field is filled with peony scrolls in relatively low relief. The reflecting side of the mirror has been highly polished, but bears localized areas of brown 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 Relief Decoration of a Peony Scroll
Description:
This circular bronze mirror has a plain outer border of medium width.
The main decorated field is circular, slightly sunken, and bordered by a circle of tiny beads.
The main field is filled with peony scrolls in relatively low relief.
The reflecting side of the mirror has been highly polished, but bears localized areas of brown patina.
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