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Bronze Mirror with Four Breasts and Animal Pattern
Eastern Han Dynasty (25—220 AD)
diameter 18.4 cm, button height 1.4 cm, edge thickness 0.7 cm
Unearthed from the third briquettes factory in Wanli District, Nanchang City in 1996
Photography equipment. Bronze. A tiger is decorated under the semicircular button seat, and part of the body is embodied around the seat. The main area outside the four sides of the broad concave line box is decorated with a bird or a beast, which is a dragon, a phoenix, a unicorn, and a tiger, and they are separated by a breast. The wide flat rim is decorated with a curling cloud pattern, which is one of the popular patterns on bronze mirrors in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The bronze mirror has a bas-relief shape, drawn with lines, and the picture is full. The beasts are strong and vigorous, full of vitality, showing the meaning of auspiciousness. The picture on the mirror creates a scene of gods, birds and beasts in the sky, accompanied by clouds.
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