Mirror with Multi-Level Deity and Divine Beast Design
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制作年 AD1
- Title
- ドウコウシキシンジュウキョウ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 銅
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001922-0000
- License
- CC BY Images license
- Creditline
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慶應義塾（センチュリー赤尾コレクション）
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- Classification
- Art
- AI Tagging
- Eye Automotive tire Button Circle Metal
Carved lines had been commonly used to decorate mirrors until a low relief technique was developed toward the latter half of the Later Han Dynasty. Divine images and sacred creatures (e.g., tiger, dragon, etc.) carved in low relief became popular motifs, and mirrors are often classified according to the position of the divine beasts and the nipples. In some popular mirror designs, several horizontal lines divide the inner band into several sections, with each section filled with a repeated motif of deities and sacred beasts. This design is called the “multi-level deity and divine beast design.” In other mirrors, the horizontal lines are missing, but the deities and divine beasts are arranged in a syntropic manner, with their heads all similarly oriented, as seen in the exhibited mirror. In yet other mirror designs, the heads of the deities and divine beasts are oriented toward the mirror’s center, forming a concentric pattern. Or, a deity may be paired with a sacred beast to form a single motif, which is repeated in a neat fashion in the so-called “contraposed divine figure and beast design.” If the nipples are arranged in a circular fashion, the mirror is described as having a “contraposed divine figure and beast design with circular nipples.”
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- Mirror with Multi-Level Deity and Divine Beast Design
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