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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.52.142
Title
Circular Mirror with Relief Decoration of Four Stylized Dragons and Quatrefoil against a Ground of Volutes within a Border of Linked Arcs
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/204305

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Cast bronze
Dimensions
Diam. 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.)
Weight 444 g

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville L. Winthrop purchased from Yamanaka & Co., New York (February 1938)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.52.142
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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, pp. 187-188, fig. 3

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