Period:Han dynasty Production date:206BC-220
Materials:bronze
Technique:incised
Dimensions:Diameter: 14.60 centimetres Weight: 531 grammes
Description:
Bronze mirror. Decorated with a ‘TLV’ design and inscribed with a 6 line poem.
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![图片[1]-mirror BM-1973-0726.54-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Han dynasty/Bronzes/mid_00153771_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-mirror BM-1973-0726.54-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Han dynasty/Bronzes/mid_00077158_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-mirror BM-1973-0726.54-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Han dynasty/Bronzes/mid_01117307_001.jpg)
![图片[4]-mirror BM-1973-0726.54-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Han dynasty/Bronzes/mid_01117308_001.jpg)
Comments:Rawson 1992:Belief in an afterlife had always been implicit in complex burials and ancestral sacrifices. From the fourth century BC, however, the Chinese elaborated a new conception of immortality. The home and abode of gods in the islands of Penglai, in the eastern seas or in the western mountains, became the quite explicit goals of the adept. At first, paradise was thought as a home for particular gods or as a source of elixirs that could confer immortality to men and women. Only later were ideas developed which included paradises in which men and women might dwell forever. Among the surviving bronzes of this period onwards, incense burners and mirrors belong to this search for life in another world.Mirrors illusrtrate a search for harmony with the cosmos and its gods. The angular signs are possibly related to divination.
Materials:bronze
Technique:incised
Dimensions:Diameter: 14.60 centimetres Weight: 531 grammes
Description:
Bronze mirror. Decorated with a ‘TLV’ design and inscribed with a 6 line poem.
IMG
Comments:Rawson 1992:Belief in an afterlife had always been implicit in complex burials and ancestral sacrifices. From the fourth century BC, however, the Chinese elaborated a new conception of immortality. The home and abode of gods in the islands of Penglai, in the eastern seas or in the western mountains, became the quite explicit goals of the adept. At first, paradise was thought as a home for particular gods or as a source of elixirs that could confer immortality to men and women. Only later were ideas developed which included paradises in which men and women might dwell forever. Among the surviving bronzes of this period onwards, incense burners and mirrors belong to this search for life in another world.Mirrors illusrtrate a search for harmony with the cosmos and its gods. The angular signs are possibly related to divination.
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