Object Number | 48-2-2 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Korean |
Provenience | Korea |
Period | Koryo Dynasty |
Date Made | Koryo Dynasty |
Section | Asian |
Materials | Bronze |
Description | Eight-lobed bronze mirror, pattern borrowed from a Chinese prototype of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE), may have been actually made in mold made from a Tang original, judging by character of casting, which is somewhat crude and indistinct. Obverse has superb patina, excellent example of original reflecting surface and patination. |
Outside Diameter | 13.3 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harald) Paumgarten, 1948, 1948 |
Other Number | L-2-336 - Old Loan Number |
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