Mirror
Unidentified Han Dynasty maker, Chinese, 206 BCE - 220 CE
Han Dynasty, 202 BCE-220 CE
Bronze
Overall: 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Patterson Todd, in memory of Oliver Julian Todd
M.980.288.2
Geography
Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia
Object Name
Personal Gear: Mirror
Research Area
Asia
Not on view
Course History
CHIN 52, Readings in Classical Chinese: Daoist Philosophical Texts, Sarah Allan, Spring 2015
Provenance
Collected in China between 1919 and 1938 by Oliver J. Todd (1880-1974); given to his son, James P. Todd, Randolph Center, Vermont; given to present collection, 1980.
Catalogue Raisonne
Milan Rupert and O.J. Todd, Chinese Bronze Mirrors, New York: Paragon Book Reprint Corp., 1966, p. 87, no. 9.
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