Mirror (618–907): Art, History and Details
Mirror at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 618–907, bronze. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Mirror (618–907) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
The predominant motifs on this mirror, the lion and the grapevine, were both foreign to China. The popularity of this mirror type, which lasted until the fall of the Tang dynasty, demonstrates the cosmopolitan tastes of wealthy Chinese during this extremely prosperous and artistically vigorous period.
Object facts
- Title: Mirror
- Date: 618–907
- Culture: China, Tang dynasty (618–907)
- Type: Metalwork
- Technique: bronze
- Dimensions: Diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
- Collection: China - Tang Dynasty
- Department: Chinese Art
- Accession number: 1926.248
Collection credit
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Further reading listed by the museum
- Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 6 (October 1985): 326–59.
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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