id: 147576
accession number: 1973.74
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Mirror with Phoenixes, Birds, Butterflies, and Floral Sprays, 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
title: Mirror with Phoenixes, Birds, Butterflies, and Floral Sprays
title in original language: 金銀平脫花鳥鏡
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creation date: 700s
creation date earliest: 700
creation date latest: 799
current location: 239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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culture: China, Tang dynasty (618-907)
technique: bronze with silver and gold inlaid lacquer
department: Chinese Art
collection: China - Tang Dynasty
type: Metalwork
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measurements: Diameter: 19.2 cm (7 9/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Mirrors: Art and Symbol
opening date: 1984-07-03T04:00:00
Mirrors: Art and Symbol. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 3-November 18, 1984).
title: Circles of Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors
opening date: 2000-09-17T00:00:00
Circles of Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000).
title: China: The Dawn of the Golden Age (200 - 750 AD)
opening date: 2004-10-05T00:00:00
China: The Dawn of the Golden Age (200 - 750 AD). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 5, 2004-January 23, 2005).
title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00
Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Yamaoka Seibei, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1973
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1973-
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CITATIONS
"The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 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
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 333
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n353
Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 42-43
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Chou, Ju-hsi. Circles of reflection: the Carter collection of Chinese bronze mirrors. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 1
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Watt, James C. Y., and Prudence Oliver Harper. China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD. 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
Yen, Chuan-Ying. "The Decorative Motifs on Tang Dynasty Mirrors." Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 9 (2005): 1-10.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 5, fig. 8
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20079750
Chung, Anita. "A Connoisseur's Eye, A Scholar's Mind: The Legacy of Sherman Lee." Orientations vol. 40, no. 5 (2009).
page number: Reproduced: p. 30, fig. 4
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