Mirror with Flower-and-Bird motif
- Date
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制作年 AD12
- Title
- カチョウモンキョウ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- Bronze
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
It is the inscription that most characterizes a Sung mirror. Traditionally, Chinese characters, making a full circle, were arranged on the mirror’s inscription band. During the Sung Dynasty, however, two or three lines of inscriptions began to be written vertically. These inscriptions often denote the origin of the metal, people’s names and the year. The most popular examples are Huzhou Mirrors, produced in Huzhou. The inscription on this mirror reads: “Cast by Xiang Ru of Hui Ji at Jin Ling Station in the year of xinhai.” Jin Ling is today’s Nanjing, so there possibly was a governmental workshop there. As inscribed mirrors were popular during the Southern Sung Dynasty, the year of xinhai may well be 1131, 1191 or 1251.
【銘】歳辛亥會稽相如鋳於金陵署
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- Mirror with Flower-and-Bird motif
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