Gilded Mirror with Lion (Foreign Creatures) and Grape Pattern
- Date
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制作年 AD7
- Title
- トキンカイジュウブドウキョウ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 銅
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
Foreign creatures meant “beasts of other lands,” and in the case of this mirror, it denotes the lion. A crouching beast form makes a fine decorative knob (boss) in the centre of beautiful example here; a hole for a cord is cast through its middle. The rest of the surface of the mirror back is then divided into two decorative areas. In the main decorative field, six frisky lions are arranged around central knob, with the same lion pattern repeated on a smaller scale in the outer field. Across both these sections is a base pattern of grapevines. This mirror uses lion and grape-arabesque motifs, both of which were introduced into China from the West. The popularity of these patterns in typical Tang Dynasty mirrors is evidence of the cosmopolitan nature of China during this era.
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- Title (EN)
- Gilded Mirror with Lion (Foreign Creatures) and Grape Pattern
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Quantity 1面
- Materials, techniques and shape
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Materials 金鍍金メッキ
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