TLV Mirror with Multiple Nipples
1st century AD
Maker Unknown
Chinese Art
TLV Mirror with Multiple Nipples, 1st century AD. China, Eastern Han dynasty (25-220). Bronze; diameter: 17.1 cm (6 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Worcester R. Warner Collection 1917.953
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- bronze
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 17.1 cm (6 3/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: (after Karlgren, "Early Chinese Mirror Inscriptions," Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities No. 6 [1934], no. 215): The Shang-fang has made the mirror, it is truly very good; on it are Immortals who do not know aging; when thirsty they drink from the jade springs; when hungry they eat dates; they roam about in the whole world and ramble [everywhere between] the four seas; may your longevity be like [that of] metal and stone; may you be a protector of the country.
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1917.953
- Credit Line
- Worcester R. Warner Collection
- Exhibitions
- Inaugural Exhibition, Mirrors: Art and Symbol, Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China, Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia, Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions, CMA 1916: "Inaugural Exhibition," cat. no. 153, Chinese Art<br>The Arts of China from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Mansfield Art Center, 2/27-4/10/1983.<br>CMA 1984: Mirrors: Art and Symbol, 3 July-128 November, 1984<br>CMA 1988: Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China. Feb. 10-April 10, 1988<br>CMA 1990: "Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia," CMA Bulletin 77 (October, 1990), cat. no. 27, p. 319; reproduced pp. 300 and 319.<br>CMA 1994: "Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions," CMA Bulletin 81 (October, 1994), cat. no. 27, p. 347.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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