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A dragon’s twisting form animates the back of this mirror. The animal splays its limbs around the perimeter and clenches the central boss in its jaws, reflecting a stylistic change in the eighth century, when pictorial designs gradually replaced symmetrical schematic patterns.
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唐 龍紋銅鏡
Title: Mirror with dragon
Period: Tang dynasty (618–907)
Date: 8th–9th century
Culture: China
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: Diam. 6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm)
Classification: Mirrors
Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 1988
Object Number: 1988.149
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