Mirror with Four Nipples and Eight Animals (300 CE): Art, History and Details
Mirror with Four Nipples and Eight Animals at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 300 CE, bronze. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Mirror with Four Nipples and Eight Animals (300 CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Inscription: On the day of wu, the first month, the first year of Yongkang, I made the bright mirror at the first of dawn by refining the yellow and the white [metals]. Great fortune and wealth will come as a result. May you live a long life. Up above are the King Father [of the East] and the Queen Mother of the West.
Object facts
- Title: Mirror with Four Nipples and Eight Animals
- Date: 300 CE
- Culture: China, Western Jin dynasty (265-316 CE)
- Type: Metalwork
- Technique: bronze
- Dimensions: Diameter: 19.6 cm (7 11/16 in.); Overall: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.); Rim: 1 cm (3/8 in.)
- Collection: China - Southern Dynasties
- Department: Chinese Art
- Accession number: 1995.334
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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