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Octafoil Mirror with Paired Phoenixes, Birds, and Flowers

雙鳳花鳥菱花鏡

late 700s

China, Tang dynasty

(618-907)
Medium
bronze
Measurements
Diameter: 28.8 cm (11 5/16 in.); Overall: 1.6 cm (5/8 in.); Rim: 1 cm (3/8 in.)
Weight: 2.74 kg (6.04 lbs.)
Credit Line
Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee 1995.366
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An eight-lobed bronze mirror, aged with a textured light green patina and gray oxidation, features intricate raised-relief carvings. A rounded central knob is flanked by two large birds with long, arched tail feathers. Smaller birds and flowering plants fill the inner field, while additional motifs decorate the scalloped rim. Fine lines detail the feathers and flora, visible across the weathered surface where the bronze glints through the mottled corrosion.

Octafoil Mirror with Paired Phoenixes, Birds, and Flowers

late 700s

China, Tang dynasty (618-907)

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