{"data": {"id": 159163, "accession_number": "1995.351", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Lobed Mirror with Heaven and Earth between the Paired Phoenixes (\u96d9\u9cf3\u4e0a\u5713\u4e0b\u65b9\u8475\u82b1\u93e1), mid to late 700s. China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Bronze; diameter: 22.5 cm (8 7/8 in.); overall: 1.1 cm (7/16 in.); rim: 0.7 cm (1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee, 1995.351", "current_location": "239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork", "title": "Lobed Mirror with Heaven and Earth between the Paired Phoenixes", "title_in_original_language": "\u96d9\u9cf3\u4e0a\u5713\u4e0b\u65b9\u8475\u82b1\u93e1", "creation_date": "mid to late 700s", "creation_date_earliest": 700, "creation_date_latest": 799, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Tang dynasty (618-907)"], "technique": "bronze", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Tang Dynasty", "type": "Metalwork", "measurements": "Diameter: 22.5 cm (8 7/8 in.); Overall: 1.1 cm (7/16 in.); Rim: 0.7 cm (1/4 in.)", "dimensions": {"diameter": {"width": 0.225, "width_inch": 8, "width_inch_fraction": 0.875}, "overall": {"height": 0.011, "height_inch": 0, "height_inch_fraction": 0.4375}, "rim": {"height": 0.007, "height_inch": 0, "height_inch_fraction": 0.25}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "\u4e0a\u5713\u4e0b\u65b9\uff0c\u8c61\u4e8e\u5929\u5730\u3002\n\u4e2d\u5217\u516b\u586b\uff0c\u5099\u8457\u9670\u967d\u3002\n\u8fb0\u661f\u93ae\u5b9a\uff0c\u65e5\u6708\u8c9e\u660e\u3002\n\u5468\u6d41\u70ba\u6c34\uff0c\u4ee5\u540d\u56db\u7006\u3002\n\u5167\u7f6e\u9023\u5c71\uff0c\u4ee5\u65cc\u738b\u5cb3\u3002", "inscription_translation": "Circle above and square below:\nThese are symbols of heaven and earth.\nIn the middle are the Eight Trigrams,\nMaking clear [the forces of] yin and yang.\nStars and constellations are well aligned;\nThe sun and the moon are virtuous and bright.\nCirculating around [the earth] is water,\nGiving identity to the Four Great Rivers.\nWithin are the mountain ranges,\nTo signify the lordly heights.", "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>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000); China Institute in America, New York, NY (February 6-June 2, 2002); Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI (December 20, 2003-February 29, 2004).", "opening_date": "2000-09-17T00:00:00"}, {"id": 219741, "title": "La voie du Tao, un autre chemin de l'Etre", "description": "<i>La voie du Tao, un autre chemin de l'Etre</i>. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (March 29-July 5, 2010).", "opening_date": "2010-03-29T00:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "Thomas and Martha Carter, Madison, WI, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?\u20131995", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1995\u2013", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "This mirror contains cosmological symbolism with heaven represented by a large circle at top and earth by a square at bottom.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This mirror bears an important inscription as well as symbolic imagery of the Eight Trigrams and Heaven and Earth to express the ancient Chinese cosmological ideas. The inscription reads: <br>Circle above and square below: <br>These are symbolic of heaven and earth. <br>In the middle are the Eight Trigrams. <br>Making clear [the forces of] yin and yang. <br>Stars and constellations are well aligned; <br>The sun and the moon are virtuous and bright. <br>Circulating around [the earth] is water, <br>Giving identity to the Four Great Rivers. <br>Within are the mountain ranges, <br>To signify the lordly heights.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60740302"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1995.351-lobed-mirror-with-he"]}, "citations": [{"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: cat. no. 69, pp. 75-76 and 121", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cahill, Suzanne E. \"The Moon Stopping in the Void: Daoism and the LIterati Ideal in Mirrors of the Tang Dynasty.\" .<em>Cleveland Studies in the History of Art</em> 9 (2005): 24-41.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 38, fig.15", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079751"}, {"citation": "Delacour, Catherine.<em> La Voie du Tao: un Autre Chemin de L'e\u0302tre : Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, 29 Mars-5 Juillet 2010</em>. Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 2010.", "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 136-137, cat. 11.2", "url": null}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.351", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.351/1995.351_web.jpg", "width": "915", "height": "893", "filesize": "653048", "filename": "1995.351_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.351/1995.351_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "3320", "filesize": "9205488", "filename": "1995.351_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.351/1995.351_full.tif", "width": "5112", "height": "4992", "filesize": "76594108", "filename": "1995.351_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.351/1995.351_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "944", "height": "893", "filesize": "721609"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.351/1995.351_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "3218", "filesize": "9730481"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.351/1995.351_alt0_full.tif", "width": "5274", "height": "4992", "filesize": "79019148"}, "date_created": "2009-11-25T14:52:30", "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.351/1995.351_alt1_web.jpg", "width": "893", "height": "893", "filesize": "634842"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.351/1995.351_alt1_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "3400", "filesize": "7185232"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.351/1995.351_alt1_full.tif", "width": "3723", "height": "3723", "filesize": "41590668"}, "date_created": "2004-03-19T16:17:22", "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.351/1995.351_alt2_web.jpg", "width": "893", "height": "893", "filesize": "643676"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.351/1995.351_alt2_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "3400", "filesize": "6844950"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.351/1995.351_alt2_full.tif", "width": "3723", "height": "3723", "filesize": "41597264"}, "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Gift of Drs. 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