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Ritual mirror with phoenixes on a lozenge ground
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Details
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- Date
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4th - 3rd century BC (400 - 201 BC)
Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Warring States Period (475 - 221 BC)
- Material and technique
- bronze
- Dimensions
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with handle 0.6 cm approx. (height)
without handle 0.3 cm (height)
11.5 cm (diameter)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › bronze
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.1564
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Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Silk. A Cultural History (London: The British Museum Press, 2004), pp 36-37, fig. 22 on p. 37
Location
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- currently in research collection
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