Mirror with Birds and Flowers Motif in Mother-of-Pearl Inlay
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制作年 AD7
- Title
- ラデンカチョウモンキョウ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 銅、螺鈿
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
The history of mother-of-pearl inlay, a traditional Chinese craft, is said to date as far back as the Western Zhou Dynasty (1027-770 c. B.C.). The decorative technique, which involves taking thinly sliced seashells and gluing them to a mirror with lacquer, climbed to its height during the Tang Dynasty (7-10th c.), during the brisk trade and influx of widely-varied jewels. This mirror is a plain bronze mirror, decorated with a design inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The shell was cut out in openwork into the shapes of birds, swallows and other motifs, applied on the back surface and imbedded by coating the rest of the surface with lacquer. Unfortunately the decoration was damaged during long period of burial, barely retaining the original florid beauty.
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- Mirror with Birds and Flowers Motif in Mother-of-Pearl Inlay
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