Sea animal grape mirror

[Sea Beast Grapevine Mirror]

Sea Beast Grapevine Mirror, Tang Dynasty, face diameter 11.9 cm
The bronze mirror is round, thick, and white in texture. It is decorated with high relief grape patterns, and decorated with sea animals, birds, bees, butterflies, flowers and other patterns. It is gorgeous and complicated. Its composition is divided into inner and outer circles. Because the vines of grapes and long-petal flowers are connected by the inner circle to the outer circle, and even extend to the outer edge, the ancient people also call this bronze mirror “lintel grape mirror”. This Tang mirror is an animal-shaped button. The outer edge of the mirror is a high and straight narrow line edge.