Small Circular Mirror with Decoration of Six "Shan" Ideographs Forming an Asymmetrical Star against a Patterned Ground

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.52.143
Title: Small Circular Mirror with Decoration of Six "Shan" Ideographs Forming an Asymmetrical Star 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/204306

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Cast bronze
Dimensions: Diam. 11.8 cm (4 5/8 in.)
Weight 224 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

1943.52.143

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

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Publication History

Jaime Jouris, "Chinese Black Bronze Mirrors: A Preliminary Examination" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, May 1991), Unpublished, passim

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