Period:Eastern Zhou dynasty Production date:4thC BC-3rdC BC (circa)
Materials:bronze
Technique:
Subjects:leaf
Dimensions:Diameter: 11.30 centimetres Weight: 85 grammes
Description:
Mirror with eight leaves. Round bronze mirror. The background is covered with a feather-hook design surrounded by swirls and granulation. In the four axial directions there is plain roughly rectangular surface thining out into a tip which turns anti-clockwise. From the tip emanates a rope-patterned line which ends into a leave surrounded by a rope border. Another leaf in clockwise direction issues from the plain surface. This leaf and the edge of the plain circle around the knob are decorated with a rope border.
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![图片[1]-mirror BM-1973-0515.4-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Eastern Zhou dynasty/Bronzes/mid_00994267_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-mirror BM-1973-0515.4-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Eastern Zhou dynasty/Bronzes/mid_00994268_001.jpg)
Comments:
Materials:bronze
Technique:
Subjects:leaf
Dimensions:Diameter: 11.30 centimetres Weight: 85 grammes
Description:
Mirror with eight leaves. Round bronze mirror. The background is covered with a feather-hook design surrounded by swirls and granulation. In the four axial directions there is plain roughly rectangular surface thining out into a tip which turns anti-clockwise. From the tip emanates a rope-patterned line which ends into a leave surrounded by a rope border. Another leaf in clockwise direction issues from the plain surface. This leaf and the edge of the plain circle around the knob are decorated with a rope border.
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