Circular Mirror with Decoration of Four Fantastic, Long-Tailed Creatures against a Patterned Ground

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.52.133
Title: Circular Mirror with Decoration of Four Fantastic, Long-Tailed Creatures against a Patterned Ground
Classification: Mirrors
Work Type: mirror
Date: 5th-3rd century BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/204269

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Cast bronze
Dimensions: Diam. 16.7 cm (6 9/16 in.)
Weight: 394 g

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Grenville L. Winthrop purchased from Yamanaka & Co., New York

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.52.133

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Publication History

Sueji Umehara, Kan izen no kokyō no kenkyū (L'Etude Sur Le Miroir Antérieur à l̀a Dynastie des "Han") (Kyôto, 1935)
Jaime Jouris, "Chinese Black Bronze Mirrors: A Preliminary Examination" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, May 1991), Unpublished, passim
Susan Costello, Katherine Eremin, and Francesca Bewer, "An investigation of repairs to Chinese bronze artefacts at the Harvard Art Museums", Holding It All Together: Ancient and Modern Approaches to Joining, Repair and Consolidation, ed. David Saunders, Archetype Publications (London, 2009), pp. 184-191, p. 190, fig. 7

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