Mirror with Four Nipples and Eight Animals
300
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 19.6 cm (7 11/16 in.); Overall: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.); Rim: 1 cm (3/8 in.)
- Genre
- metalwork
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
China, Western Jin dynasty (265-316 CE)
About
Inscription: On the day of wu, the first month, the first year of Yongkang, I made the bright mirror at the first of dawn by refining the yellow and the white [metals]. Great fortune and wealth will come as a result. May you live a long life. Up above are the King Father [of the East] and the Queen Mother of the West.