Mirror with Dragon Motif
CultureChinese
DateWarring States period (475-221 B.C.E.)
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 3 5/8 × 3 5/8 inches (9.21 × 9.21 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number35-76/2
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
DescriptionSquare mirror, in two parts soldered together. Back pierced to form pattern of four curled dragons about a central quatrefoil.Exhibition HistoryAncient Chinese Bronzes, Pomona College, Claremont, California, 1947.
China Institute, January - April 1951.
Ohio State University, Columbus, June 5 – August 27, 1955; Exhibition in conjunction with the Summer Institute on the Far East, June 20 - July 22, 1955.
Purchased through Laurence Sickman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.
Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 18 (repro.).
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