Mirror with Dragon and Xi Wangmu (Queen Mother of the West)
Unidentified Han Dynasty maker, Chinese, 206 BCE - 220 CE
Han Dynasty, 202 BCE-220 CE
Bronze
Overall: 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dorothy Marion Levitt Beskind and D. Herbert Beskind, Class of 1936
M.957.140
Geography
Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia
Object Name
Personal Gear: Mirror
Research Area
Asia
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 57, Origins of Inequality, Alan Covey, Winter 2013
CHIN 52, Readings in Classical Chinese: Daoist Philosophical Texts, Sarah Allan, Spring 2015
Provenance
Dorothy Marion Levitt Beskind (1917-2014) and David Herbert Beskind (1915-2015), Class of 1936, New York, New York; given to present collection, 1957.
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