{"data": {"id": 147576, "accession_number": "1973.74", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Mirror with Phoenixes, Birds, Butterflies, and Floral Sprays (\u91d1\u9280\u5e73\u812b\u82b1\u9ce5\u93e1), 700s. China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Bronze with silver and gold inlaid lacquer; diameter: 19.2 cm (7 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1973.74", "current_location": "239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork", "title": "Mirror with Phoenixes, Birds, Butterflies, and Floral Sprays", "title_in_original_language": "\u91d1\u9280\u5e73\u812b\u82b1\u9ce5\u93e1", "creation_date": "700s", "creation_date_earliest": 700, "creation_date_latest": 799, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Tang dynasty (618-907)"], "technique": "bronze with silver and gold inlaid lacquer", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Tang Dynasty", "type": "Metalwork", "measurements": "Diameter: 19.2 cm (7 9/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"diameter": {"width": 0.192, "width_inch": 7, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5625}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 309838, "title": "Mirrors: Art and Symbol", "description": "<i>Mirrors: Art and Symbol</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 3-November 18, 1984).", "opening_date": "1984-07-03T04:00:00"}, {"id": 193152, "title": "Circles of Reflection:  The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors", "description": "<i>Circles of Reflection:  The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000).", "opening_date": "2000-09-17T00:00:00"}, {"id": 222590, "title": "China: The Dawn of the Golden Age (200 - 750 AD)", "description": "<i>China: The Dawn of the Golden Age (200 - 750 AD)</i>. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 5, 2004-January 23, 2005).", "opening_date": "2004-10-05T00:00:00"}, {"id": 196054, "title": "Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art", "description": "<i>Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).", "opening_date": "2009-06-27T04:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Yamaoka Seibei, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?-1973", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1973-", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Mirrors like this have a polished side for viewing and a decorated side with a central knob for lifting.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This extremely rare <em>pingtuo </em>mirror is coated with a lacquer base inlaid with paper-thin sheets of silver and gold. The decorative patterns, especially the floral arabesques and the phoenixes and birds holding branches in their mouths, have a pronounced Persian and Central Asian flavor. Luxury items like this had been used by the Tang emperor as diplomatic gifts. A similar example from the Japanese imperial collection of Emperor Sh\u014dmu was donated by Empress K\u014dmy\u014d in 756 to the Sh\u014ds\u014d-in repository of the T\u014ddai-ji Temple, Nara, Japan.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60758209"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1973.74-mirror-with-phoenixe"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "\"The Year in Review for 1973.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78.", "page_number": "Mentioned: no. 185, pp. 31 and 79; Reproduced: no. 185, p. 65", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 333", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n353"}, {"citation": "Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. <em>Masterworks of Asian Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.", "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 42-43", "url": null}, {"citation": "Chou, Ju-hsi. <em>Circles of reflection: the Carter collection of Chinese bronze mirrors</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.", "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 1", "url": null}, {"citation": "Watt, James C. Y., and Prudence Oliver Harper. <em>China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD</em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.", "page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. 217, p. 322", "url": "https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/56691"}, {"citation": "Yen, Chuan-Ying. \"The Decorative Motifs on Tang Dynasty Mirrors.\" <em>Cleveland Studies in the History of Art</em> 9 (2005): 1-10.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 5,  fig. 8", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/20079750"}, {"citation": "Chung, Anita. \"A Connoisseur's Eye, A Scholar's Mind: The Legacy of Sherman Lee.\" <em>Orientations </em>vol. 40, no. 5 (2009).", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 30, fig. 4", "url": null}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.74", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.74/1973.74_web.jpg", "width": "930", "height": "893", "filesize": "621586", "filename": "1973.74_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.74/1973.74_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "3266", "filesize": "8283325", "filename": "1973.74_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.74/1973.74_full.tif", "width": "5026", "height": "4828", "filesize": "72818252", "filename": "1973.74_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.74/1973.74_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "900", "height": "893", "filesize": "621484"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.74/1973.74_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "3373", "filesize": "8750472"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.74/1973.74_alt0_full.tif", "width": "5032", "height": "4992", "filesize": "75380752"}, "date_created": "2009-06-05T12:46:51", "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.74/1973.74_alt1_web.jpg", "width": "1116", "height": "893", "filesize": "705845"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.74/1973.74_alt1_print.jpg", "width": "1920", "height": "1536", "filesize": "2227474"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.74/1973.74_alt1_full.tif", "width": "1920", "height": "1536", "filesize": "8850612"}, "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Leonard C. 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