Mirror with Concentric Circles and Linked Arcs (100–1 BCE): Art, History and Details
Mirror with Concentric Circles and Linked Arcs at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 100–1 BCE, bronze. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Mirror with Concentric Circles and Linked Arcs (100–1 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Inscription: Refine the copper to be pure and bright. Make it into a mirror to receive rightful decor. May it extend your life and remove misfortunes! [You are] coeval with the heaven above.
Object facts
- Title: Mirror with Concentric Circles and Linked Arcs
- Date: 100–1 BCE
- Culture: China, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE)
- Type: Metalwork
- Technique: bronze
- Dimensions: Diameter: 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.); Overall: 1.1 cm (7/16 in.); Rim: 0.7 cm (1/4 in.)
- Collection: China - Han Dynasty
- Department: Chinese Art
- Accession number: 1995.306
Collection credit
Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee
Further reading listed by the museum
- Chou, Ju-hsi. Circles of reflection: the Carter collection of Chinese bronze mirrors. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
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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