Mirror with Phoenixes, Birds, Butterflies, and Floral Sprays
700s
Maker Unknown
Chinese Art
Mirror with Phoenixes, Birds, Butterflies, and Floral Sprays, 700s. China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Bronze with silver and gold inlaid lacquer; diameter: 19.2 cm (7 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1973.74 Mirrors like this have a polished side for viewing and a decorated side with a central knob for lifting.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- bronze with silver and gold inlaid lacquer
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 19.2 cm (7 9/16 in.)
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1973.74
- Credit Line
- Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Exhibitions
- Mirrors: Art and Symbol, Circles of Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors, China: The Dawn of the Golden Age (200 - 750 AD), Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork
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