XIN/EARLY EASTERN HAN DYNASTY, 1ST CENTURY

The rubbing of a similar mirror is illustrated in Kaogu, 1980:4, p. 957, no. 2, and another excavated from a mid Eastern Han tomb is also illlustrated as a rubbing in Kaogu 1986:10, p. 342, fig. 5. Compare, also, the mirror of this type with different decoration in the square band, but otherwise very similar decoration, including that on the rim, illustrated by Shilun Wang in Zhejiang chutu tongjing (Bronze Mirrors Excavated in Zhejiang), Beijing, 1987, no. 19.