“Yizisun” bronze light-penetrating mirror with seven knobs, late Western Han period, 1st century BCE
- Image Number: C1A000319N000000000PAB
- Dynasty: Western Han dynasty
- Category: Bronzes
- Function: Household appliance
- Material: Mineral/Metal/Bronze
- Description:
Round mirror, hemispherical button, round nine breasts. The pattern is a double circle layout. The main decorative ring is composed of seven round bases with three bird patterns. The patterns of birds, animals and feathered people are in the milk room. The outer circle is decorated with an inscription of 19 words in a week: “Try to govern, and the day will change. Follow the law all your life, and be rich if you are respectful. It is good for your descendants.” Among the bronze mirrors, the most legendary one is the transparent mirror. Under the strong sunlight, the difference between the thickness of the mirror body makes the light and shadow reflected on the wall of the mirror can transmit the mirror back pattern, producing a fantastic effect of light reflecting the mirror. Qianlong’s “Western Qing Dynasty Four Classics” recorded five tested light transmitting mirrors, which were recorded in the Forbidden City Museum in Beijing on four sides of the “Western Qing Dynasty Ancient Classics”. This is the one recorded in the seventeenth page of page 19 of Volume B of the “Western Qing Dynasty Sequential Classics”.
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