TLV Mirror with Multiple Nipples

TLV Mirror with Multiple Nipples

典藏者
The Cleveland Museum of Art
The inscription in this mirror reads: A fine mirror it is, my making of it! I can show the ageless immortals up above. They wander over the earth and belittle the Four Oceans. They live as long as metal and stone, And are true protectors of our kingdom. These poetic lines suggest the reflective and magical qualities of the bronze mirror in the Chinese imagination. Besides reflecting the immortals, it illuminated the human soul so that it would be in tune with forces of yin and yang in Chinese cosmology.

詳細資料

主要名稱
TLV Mirror with Multiple Nipples
其他名稱
其他名稱: 
典藏者
The Cleveland Museum of Art
內容描述

The inscription in this mirror reads: A fine mirror it is, my making of it! I can show the ageless immortals up above. They wander over the earth and belittle the Four Oceans. They live as long as metal and stone, And are true protectors of our kingdom. These poetic lines suggest the reflective and magical qualities of the bronze mirror in the Chinese imagination. Besides reflecting the immortals, it illuminated the human soul so that it would be in tune with forces of yin and yang in Chinese cosmology.

This mirror includes a poetic inscription that credits the immortals as protectors of the kingdom.

物件類別
文物
其他內容描述
取得方式: 

Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee

取得方式: 

?-1995Dr. Thomas and Dr. Martha Carter, Madison, WI, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

取得方式: 

1995-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1995-present

尺寸: 

Diameter: 16.9 公分 (6 5/8 英吋)

尺寸: 

Overall: 1.1 公分 (7/16 英吋)

尺寸: 

Rim: 0.5 公分 (3/16 英吋)

材質: 

青銅

註記: 

作佳鏡哉真大好,上有仙人不知老。
渴飲玉泉飢食棗,浮遊天下傲四海。
壽如金石為國保。

類型: 
創建時間
創建時間: 
西元 9~23
創建時間: 
新莽
創建地點
創建地點: 
中國
識別碼
1995.298
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