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Lee, 1995.298", "current_location": "241B Arts of Ancient China", "title": "TLV Mirror with Multiple Nipples", "title_in_original_language": "\u591a\u4e73\u535a\u5c40\u5f0f\u93e1", "creation_date": "9\u201323 CE", "creation_date_earliest": 9, "creation_date_latest": 23, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Xin dynasty (9\u201323 CE)"], "technique": "bronze", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Han Dynasty", "type": "Metalwork", "measurements": "Diameter: 16.9 cm (6 5/8 in.); Overall: 1.1 cm (7/16 in.); Rim: 0.5 cm (3/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"diameter": {"width": 0.169, "width_inch": 6, "width_inch_fraction": 0.625}, "overall": {"height": 0.011, "height_inch": 0, "height_inch_fraction": 0.4375}, "rim": {"height": 0.005, "height_inch": 0, "height_inch_fraction": 0.1875}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "\u4f5c\u4f73\u93e1\u54c9\u771f\u5927\u597d\uff0c\u4e0a\u6709\u4ed9\u4eba\u4e0d\u77e5\u8001\u3002\n\u6e34\u98f2\u7389\u6cc9\u98e2\u98df\u68d7\uff0c\u6d6e\u904a\u5929\u4e0b\u50b2\u56db\u6d77\u3002\n\u58fd\u5982\u91d1\u77f3\u70ba\u570b\u4fdd\u3002", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"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>. 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Sackler Museum, Washington, DC (2/26/2005 - 5/15/2005):  \"Asian Games: The Art of Contest\", exh. cat. no. 10:13, p. 123", "opening_date": "2004-10-14T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Dr. Thomas and Dr. Martha Carter, Madison, WI, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-1995", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1995-present", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1995-", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "This mirror includes a poetic inscription that credits the immortals as protectors of the kingdom.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The inscription in this mirror reads: A fine mirror it is, my making of it! I can show the ageless immortals up above. They wander over the earth and belittle the Four Oceans. They live as long as metal and stone, And are true protectors of our kingdom. These poetic lines suggest the reflective and magical qualities of the bronze mirror in the Chinese imagination. Besides reflecting the immortals, it illuminated the human soul so that it would be in tune with forces of yin and yang in Chinese cosmology.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60755452"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1995.298-tlv-mirror-with-mult"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Chou, Ju-hsi. <em>Circles of reflection: the Carter collection of Chinese bronze mirrors</em>. 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