TLV Mirror with Multiple Nipples

1st century AD

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Title: TLV Mirror with Multiple Nipples
Date Created: 1st century AD
Physical Dimensions: Diameter: 17.1 cm (6 3/4 in.)
Type: Metalwork
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.953
Medium: bronze
Inscriptions: (after Karlgren, "Early Chinese Mirror Inscriptions," Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities No. 6 [1934], no. 215): The Shang-fang has made the mirror, it is truly very good; on it are Immortals who do not know aging; when thirsty they drink from the jade springs; when hungry they eat dates; they roam about in the whole world and ramble [everywhere between] the four seas; may your longevity be like [that of] metal and stone; may you be a protector of the country.
Department: Chinese Art
Culture: China, Eastern Han dynasty (25-220)
Credit Line: Worcester R. Warner Collection
Collection: China - Han Dynasty
Accession Number: 1917.953

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