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Description Detail on the backside of a Chinese Western Han Dynasty bronze mirror painted with pigment and designs of flower motif and scenes of daily life during the 2nd century BC.
Date First half of 2nd century BC
Source "Brilliant Artifacts" in Recarving China's Past (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005), by Cary Y. Liu, edited by Naomi Noble Richard, image on page 381, description on page 380.
Author Anonymous artist


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