Chinese Bronze Mirrors
May 2026
These objects are all bronze mirrors from various Chinese dynasties, spanning from the Eastern Zhou period through the Yuan dynasty, representing a continuous tradition of decorative metalwork.
175 objects · 4 institutions
Animal-and-Grape Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 1100s–mid-1200s
Animal-and-Grape Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 600s–early 900s
Animal-and-Grape Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 600s-early 900s
Animal-and-Grape Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 600s
Animal-and-Grape Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
early to mid 600s
Animal-and-Grape Mirror with a Variety of Birds
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 600s
Censer
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 600s
Censer
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 600s
Censer
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 600s
Cruciform Mirror with Six Blossoms
Cleveland Museum of Art
960–1127
Cruciform Mirror with Two Lions
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 700s-early 800s
Double-tier Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
300s BCE
Dragon Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
mid-1300s–mid-1600s
Hammered Silver Mirror Back (?)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
11th–mid-16th century
Hand mirror with Christ as the Good Shepherd
Rijksmuseum
c. 1640 - c. 1660
Hexafoil Mirror with Floral Interlaces, a Phoenix, and Running Animals
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 600s-early 900s
Lobed Mirror of Three Delights
Cleveland Museum of Art
700s
Lobed Mirror with Acrobats on Lotus Blossoms
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 600s-early 900s
Lobed Mirror with Birds, Insects, and Floral Sprays
Art Institute of Chicago
Tang dynasty (618–907), 8th century
Lobed Mirror with Birds, Lions, and Floral Sprays
Art Institute of Chicago
Tang dynasty (A.D. 618–907), 8th century
Lobed Mirror with Eight Blossoms
Cleveland Museum of Art
700s
Lobed Mirror with Heaven and Earth between the Paired Phoenixes
Cleveland Museum of Art
mid to late 700s
Lobed Mirror with Images of the “Moon Palace”: Hare Pounding Elixir, Toad, and Chang E Holding Peaches of Immortality
Art Institute of Chicago
Tang dynasty (A.D. 618–907), 8th century
Lobed Mirror with Paired Phoenixes and Auspicious Animals
Cleveland Museum of Art
700s
Lobed Mirror with Paired Phoenixes and Floral Displays
Cleveland Museum of Art
700s
Lobed Mirror with Paired Phoenixes and Floral Displays
Cleveland Museum of Art
700s
Lobed Mirror with Paired Phoenixes, a Nestling Bird, and a Lotus Blossom
Cleveland Museum of Art
700s
Lobed Mirror with Shaluo Tree
Cleveland Museum of Art
mid 10th Century - mid 12th Century
Lobed Mirror with Six Blossoms
Cleveland Museum of Art
mid-600s
Lobed Mirror with a Tortoise Knob, Musician, and Phoenix
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 700s
Miniature Mirror with Grape Decoration
Cleveland Museum of Art
600s
Miniature Square Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
581–618
Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
618–907
Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
25–220 CE
Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
618–907
Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
618–907
Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
25–220 CE
Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
618–907
Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
25–220 CE
Mirror
Metropolitan Museum of Art
12th century
Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
206 BCE–220 CE
Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
317–581 CE
Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
206 BCE–220 CE
Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 18th Century
Mirror
Art Institute of Chicago
Tang dynasty (618–907)
Mirror Case
Art Institute of Chicago
Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1875/1900
Mirror Featuring Dading Coins
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1178–1234
Mirror Stand in the Shape of a Djeiran
Cleveland Museum of Art
mid 1600s-early 1900s
Mirror Stand in the Shape of an Ox
Cleveland Museum of Art
1644–1911
Mirror of Tortoise Knob and Lotus Pattern
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 600s-early 900s
Mirror of the "Deities and Beasts"
Cleveland Museum of Art
300–400 CE
Mirror with "TLV" Pattern
Art Institute of Chicago
Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE), about 1st century
Mirror with 'Shan' (Mountain) Pattern
Cleveland Museum of Art
200s BCE
Mirror with Addorsed Sphinxes
Cleveland Museum of Art
1200s
Mirror with Animals and Birds
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 700s
Mirror with Auspicious Animals Surrounded by Rings of Squares and Semicircles
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 100s CE
Mirror with Auspicious Animals, Celestial Horses, and Grapevines
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 1100s–mid-1200s
Mirror with Clouds and Nebulae
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 300s BCE–50 CE
Mirror with Clouds and Nebulae
Cleveland Museum of Art
200–100 BCE
Mirror with Concentric Circles
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 300s BCE–50 CE
Mirror with Concentric Circles
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 300s BCE–50 CE
Mirror with Concentric Circles and Auspicious Animals
Cleveland Museum of Art
206 BCE–220 CE
Mirror with Concentric Circles and Linked Arcs
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 300s BCE–50 CE
Mirror with Concentric Circles and Linked Arcs
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 200s–9 BCE
Mirror with Concentric Circles and Linked Arcs
Cleveland Museum of Art
100–1 BCE
Mirror with Concentric Circles and Linked Arcs
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 300s BCE–50 CE
Mirror with Concentric Circles and Linked Arcs
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 300s BCE–50 CE
Mirror with Concentric Circles, an Immortal, and Auspicious Animals
Cleveland Museum of Art
100 BCE–100 CE
Mirror with Concentric Circles, an Immortal, and Auspicious Animals
Cleveland Museum of Art
25–100 CE
Mirror with Confucian Maxim
Cleveland Museum of Art
1400s
Mirror with Continuous Arcs against Whorl Pattern
Cleveland Museum of Art
200s BCE
Mirror with Deities and Animals Surrounded by Rings of Squares and Semicircles
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 100s–early 200s CE
Mirror with Deities and Animals Surrounded by Rings of Squares and Semicircles
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 100s CE
Mirror with Deities and Animals Surrounded by Rings of Squares and Semicircles
Cleveland Museum of Art
175–225 CE
Mirror with Deities and Animals in Concentric Circles
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 500s–early 600s
Mirror with Deities and Kings
Cleveland Museum of Art
100s CE
Mirror with Deities, Chariot, and the White Tiger
Cleveland Museum of Art
100–200 CE
Mirror with Double Quatrefoils, Dragons, and Phoenixes
Cleveland Museum of Art
200s BCE
Mirror with Dragon Arabesque
Art Institute of Chicago
Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period or early Western Han dynasty, 3rd/2nd century B.C.
Mirror with Dragon Arabesques
Art Institute of Chicago
Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period or early Western Han dynasty, 3rd/2nd century B.C.
Mirror with Dragon Arabesques
Art Institute of Chicago
Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period or early Western Han dynasty, 3rd/2nd century B.C.
Mirror with Dragon Design
Cleveland Museum of Art
1700–1911
Mirror with Dragon and Bird Arabesque
Art Institute of Chicago
Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 9)
Mirror with Dragon and Tiger
Art Institute of Chicago
Eastern Han dynasty, 25–220 CE
Mirror with Five Blossoms and Overlapping Lozenges
Cleveland Museum of Art
300s BCE
Mirror with Flowers and Birds in Gold and Silver Cutouts over a Lacquer Base
Cleveland Museum of Art
mid-700s
Mirror with Four Bixie
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 400s–late 500s CE
Mirror with Four Dragons Pattern
Cleveland Museum of Art
500–200 BCE
Mirror with Four Leaves
Cleveland Museum of Art
1100s–1200s
Mirror with Four Nipples and Eight Animals
Cleveland Museum of Art
300 CE
Mirror with Four Nipples and Eight Birds
Cleveland Museum of Art
100–1 BCE
Mirror with Four Nipples and Four Birds
Cleveland Museum of Art
206 BCE–9 CE
Mirror with Four Nipples, Dragons, and Tigers
Cleveland Museum of Art
100–1 BCE
Mirror with Four Nipples, Immortals, Dragon and Tiger
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 125–220 CE
Mirror with Four Nipples, Quasi-Dragons, and Birds
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 300s BCE–50 CE
Mirror with Four Nipples, Quasi-Dragons, and Birds
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 300s BCE–50 CE
Mirror with Four Nipples, Quasi-Dragons, and Birds
Cleveland Museum of Art
100–1 BCE
Mirror with Four Nipples, Quasi-Dragons, and Birds
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 300s BCE–50 CE
Mirror with Four Qilin
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 100s–early 200s CE
Mirror with Four Spirits
Cleveland Museum of Art
581–618
Mirror with Four T's
Cleveland Museum of Art
300s BCE
Mirror with Handle, Decorated with "Double Happiness" and Five Bats
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1800
Mirror with Images of Daoist Deities
Art Institute of Chicago
Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE), 2nd or 3rd century CE
Mirror with Images of Purity and Immortality and “Lion and Grapevine” Design
Art Institute of Chicago
Tang dynasty (618–907), 8th century
Mirror with Images of Purity and Immortality and “Lion and Grapevine” Design
Art Institute of Chicago
Tang dynasty (618–907), 8th century
Mirror with Interlacing Dragons
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 600s-early 900s
Mirror with Interlacing Floral Motifs and Twelve Zodiac Animals
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 500s–early 600s
Mirror with Jade Disk Inset
Cleveland Museum of Art
475 BCE–9 CE
Mirror with Linked Arcs and Kui Dragons
Cleveland Museum of Art
100s CE
Mirror with Linked Arcs and Kui Dragons
Cleveland Museum of Art
200–100 BCE
Mirror with Lotus and Mantra
Cleveland Museum of Art
1271–1368
Mirror with Mythical Creatures
Art Institute of Chicago
Sui dynasty (581-618)
Mirror with Paired Felines
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 500s–600s
Mirror with Paired Phoenixes
Cleveland Museum of Art
25–316 CE
Mirror with Phoenixes, Birds, Butterflies, and Floral Sprays
Cleveland Museum of Art
700s
Mirror with Quatrefoil and Feather Pattern
Cleveland Museum of Art
300s BCE
Mirror with Quatrefoil and Linked Arcs
Cleveland Museum of Art
25–220 CE
Mirror with Quatrefoil, Concentric Circles, and Linked Arcs
Cleveland Museum of Art
25–220 CE
Mirror with Quatrefoil, Four Nipples, Animals, and Birds
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 300s BCE–50 CE
Mirror with Quatrefoil, Paired Phoenixes, and Auspicious Animals
Cleveland Museum of Art
221–316 CE
Mirror with Quatrefoil, Paired Phoenixes, and Auspicious Animals
Cleveland Museum of Art
25–316 CE
Mirror with Quatrefoils and Linked Arcs
Cleveland Museum of Art
100s BCE
Mirror with Serpentine Interlaces
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 400s–late 200s BCE
Mirror with Serpentine Interlaces
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 500s–late 300s BCE
Mirror with Serpentine Interlaces and Angular Meanders
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 500s–late 300s BCE
Mirror with Serpentine Interlaces and Angular Meanders
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 325–275 BCE
Mirror with Serpentine Interlaces and Angular Meanders
Cleveland Museum of Art
200s BCE
Mirror with Serpentine Interlaces and Angular Meanders
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 500s–late 300s BCE
Mirror with Six Circular Flowers
Cleveland Museum of Art
600s
Mirror with Sparrows and Floral Sprays
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 600s-early 700s
Mirror with Stylized Phoenixes and Petal Loenges
Art Institute of Chicago
Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period or early Western Han dynasty, 3rd/2nd century B.C.
Mirror with Three Dragons
Cleveland Museum of Art
200s BCE
Mirror with Three Dragons
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 1100s–early 1200s
Mirror with Three Pairs of Bixie around a Loti-form Knob
Cleveland Museum of Art
mid-600s
Mirror with Twin Carp
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1200–25
Mirror with Twin Dragons and Lotus Blossoms
Cleveland Museum of Art
1338
Mirror with Two Dragons and a Tiger
Cleveland Museum of Art
200s CE
Mirror with Wheel Spokes and Riding Boys
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1196–1234
Mirror with Xiwangmu
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 317–400 CE
Mirror with a Central Square, Immortals, and Auspicious Animals
Cleveland Museum of Art
100s CE
Mirror with a Central Square, an Immortal, and Auspicious Animals
Cleveland Museum of Art
100s CE
Mirror with a Coiling Dragon
Cleveland Museum of Art
700s
Mirror with a Coiling Dragon
Cleveland Museum of Art
200s CE
Mirror with a Pair of Phoenixes
Cleveland Museum of Art
1100s
Mirror with a Square Band and Four Nipples
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 200s–early 100s BCE
Mirror with a Square Band, Four Nipples, and Grass Leaf Motifs
Cleveland Museum of Art
100s BCE
Mirror with a Square Band, Four Nipples, and Grass Leaf Motifs
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 300s BCE–50 CE
Mirror with a Square Band, Four Nipples, and Grass Leaf Motifs
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 300s BCE–50 CE
Narrative Mirror with Handle
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 12th Century - mid 14th Century
Octafoil Mirror with Avian and Floral Motifs
Cleveland Museum of Art
early to mid 10th Century
Octafoil Mirror with Crouched Animals
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 600s-early 900s
Octafoil Mirror with Hunters and Prey
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 600s–early 700s
Octafoil Mirror with Legend of Herdboy and Weaver Maid
Cleveland Museum of Art
mid-900s-late 1200s
Octafoil Mirror with Lunar Palace
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 1100s–mid-1200s
Octafoil Mirror with Paired Phoenixes and Animals
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 600s-early 700s
Octafoil Mirror with Paired Phoenixes, Birds, and Flowers
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 700s
Octafoil Mirror with Riding Immortals and Rising Peaks
Cleveland Museum of Art
600s
Octafoil Mirror with Two Immortals Crossing the Ocean
Cleveland Museum of Art
mid-900s–late 1200s
Octafoil-shaped Mirror Featuring Ci Fei, the Dragon Slayer
Cleveland Museum of Art
900s–1300s
Quadrilobed Mirror with Wan Symbol
Cleveland Museum of Art
700s-800s
Sakyamuni with Two Attendants
Cleveland Museum of Art
600s
Seated Woman Holding Mirror
Art Institute of Chicago
Tang dynasty (A.D. 618–907), first half of 8th century
Small Erotic Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
late 1200s–mid-1300s
Square Mirror with Felicitous Message
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 900s–late 1200s
Square Mirror with Floral and Coin Motifs
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 900s-early 1100s
Square Mirror with Two Phoenixes and Floral Sprays
Cleveland Museum of Art
960–1127
Square Mirror with Wan Symbol
Cleveland Museum of Art
early 1000s
TLV Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
1–early 200s CE
TLV Mirror with Four Spirits and Companions
Cleveland Museum of Art
9–100 CE
TLV Mirror with Gilt Surface
Cleveland Museum of Art
100s BCE
TLV Mirror with Multiple Nipples
Cleveland Museum of Art
1–200 CE
TLV Mirror with Multiple Nipples
Cleveland Museum of Art
9–23 CE
TLV Mirror with Multiple Nipples
Cleveland Museum of Art
9–23 CE
TLV Mirror with Multiple Nipples
Cleveland Museum of Art
9–23 CE
TLV Mirror with Serpentine Interlaces
Cleveland Museum of Art
125–1 BCE