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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.52.150
Title
Circular Double-Tier Mirror with Domed, Openwork Decoration of Intertwined Snake-Dragons
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/204309

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Cast bronze
Dimensions
Diam. 13.9 cm (5 1/2 in.)
Weight 595 g

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville L. Winthrop purchased from Yamanaka & Co., New York (May 1934)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.52.150
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sueji Umehara, Shina-Kodo Seikwa (Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Europe and America), Yamanaka & Co. (Osaka, Japan, 1933), vol. 4, pl. 1
  • Sueji Umehara, L'Étude sur le Miroir Antérieur à la Dynastie des "HAN", The Academy of Oriental Culture, Kyoto Institute (Kyoto, 1935), pl. XXXII
  • Kazuo Miyamoto, "The Warring States Age's Bronze Mirrors of the Winthrop Collection at Harvard University Art Museums", Bulletin of the Sumitomo Collection (Sen-Oku Hakuko Kan) (Kyoto, October 2000), XVII, pp. 47-67, pp. 65-66, pl. 5-2
  • Susan Costello, "An Investigation of Early Chinese Bronze Mirrors at the Harvard University Art Museums" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2005), Unpublished, pp. 1-25 passim

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