2010.438: Lobed Mirror with Relief Decoration of Rong Qiqi and Confucius and with an Explanatory Inscription
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2010.438
- Title
- Lobed Mirror with Relief Decoration of Rong Qiqi and Confucius and with an Explanatory Inscription
- Classification
- Mirrors
- Work Type
- mirror
- Date
- 8th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Tang dynasty, 618-907
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/315439
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Cast bronze
- Dimensions
- Diam. 12.9 cm (5 1/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Edmund Lin (1928-2006; Professor, Harvard Medical School), Boston; by bequest to the Harvard Art Museum
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Edmund Chi Chien Lin
- Accession Year
- 2010
- Object Number
- 2010.438
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- This eight-lobed circular mirror has a relatively narrow, undecorated rim. The decorative field is wide, circular and lightly sunken. Two figures appear -- Confucius on left and Rong Qiqi on right --with a hemispherical knob in between. Below the knob (at the six-o'clock position) is a willow tree. At the top, in a horizontally oriented rectangular cartouche, there is an inscription of nine characters, three characters arranged in each column: Rong Qiqi / Wen Yue Hui / Kong Fuzi [Rong Qiqi was questioned by and replied to Confucius]. On the reflecting side of the mirror there are localized areas of relatively thick patina, in which there are both pseudomorphs and actual silk fragments.
Verification Level
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