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Bronze mirrors were produced in China from Neolithic times until Western glass mirrors were brought to China. Bronze mirrors were usually circular, with one side polished bright, to give a reflection, and the reverse side normally decorated in cast relief in early examples, later on sometimes inlaid in precious metal. They generally had a knob ...
The Desborough Mirror is an intricately decorated English bronze mirror dated to c. 50 BC – 50 AD.It consists of a cast handle and a roughly circular mirror plate which is highly polished on its front side to achieve reflectivity, and decorated on its reverse with intricate engraved and chased and curvilinear patterns in the La Tène style which were filled in with basket hatching.
English: Bronze mirror from the cemetery near Poseidonia, 5th century BC. Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth. Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth. Čeština: Bronzové zrcadlo z pohřebiště u Poseidónie, 5. století před n. l. Archeologické muzeum v Korinthu.
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Large speculum metal mirrors are hard to manufacture, and the alloy is prone to tarnish, requiring frequent re-polishing. However, it was the only practical choice for large mirrors in high-precision optical equipment between the mid-17th and mid-19th centuries, before the invention of glass silvering.
Rei-kyō is a Chinese-style bronze mirror made in the Japanese archipelago, whose perimeter is surrounded by four to ten bells with pebbles inside. [1] Chinese-style bronze mirrors made outside of China are called bousei-kyō (Japanese: 仿製鏡, lit. 'imitated mirror'), and rei-kyō is one of them. [2]
A Shinjū-kyō (神獣鏡, "deity and beast mirror") is an ancient type of Japanese round bronze mirror decorated with images of gods and animals from Chinese mythology. The obverse side has a polished mirror and the reverse has relief representations of legendary Chinese shén ( 神 "spirit; god"), xiān ( 仙 "transcendent; immortal"), and ...
The Yata no Kagami represents "wisdom" or "honesty," depending on the source. [2] Its name literally means "The Eight Ata Mirror," a reference to its size. [3] [4] Mirrors in ancient Japan represented truth because they merely reflected what was shown, and were objects of mystique and reverence (being uncommon items).