Bronze mirror, four coiling kui dragons pattern, four-point

Bronze mirror with four-point diamond-like and coiling kui dragons pattern, National Palace Museum

Warring States Period

C. 5th to 3rd Century B.C.

Bronze mirror with four coiling kui dragons pattern

The common patterns decorating the bronze mirrors from the Warring States period include "shan-zi" (a pattern similar to the character "mountain"), lozenges, connected arcs, feathers, dragons, kui dragons, hunting scenes, and so on. Most were the modified versions based upon those on the bronze vessels of Eastern Zhou and then evolved into a system of their own, achieving the first peak in the history of bronze mirrors.

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