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  • Mirror
  • Cast bronze
  • China 206 f Kr - 220 e Kr
  • RKM 6-1954
  • Purchase
  • On display in Inspiration East Asia Room 2
Description
Exhibition history
EXTRA MATERIAL

Mirror made of cast bronze, decorated with ornaments and chinese characters. In the center two seated figures, a wagon with four horses, courtiers, a dragon, birds etc.
Inscription at one of the sitting figures is the Daoist Divinity Dong Wang Gong, translated to the Eastern King. Gong is a kind of honorary title that may mean father or more generally uncle and is often used to adress elderly people. The opposite figure on the mirror could be Xi Wangmu, the queen mother in the west. The text around the edge is about how the emperor subdued the four barbarians around the Han Kingdom and how this was pleasing news to the people. Also that the Xiongnu people were subdued, the five grains mature, to protect their parents and gain power from heaven.

Han dynasty, 206 BC–220 AD

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