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Mirror with the Character "Mountain" in the Four Directions
4th-3rd century BCE
bronze
(China )
(China )
This mirror is decorated with four images of the characeter "shan" or mountain arranged so that they mark the four cardinal directions. The background is decorated with stylized cloud forms.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Laurance and Isabel Roberts, Baltimore, Maryland., 1933, by purchase [from a dealer in Peking, name unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1995, by gift.
Geographies
China (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Diam: 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Isabel and Laurence Roberts, 1995
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
54.2885