An inscribed complex silvered bronze mirror Eastern Han dynasty, 2nd Century AD

finely cast to the center with figures playing music interspersed with four striding bixie, their shoulders and hips set with evenly spaced recessed roundels to receive gemstones, encircled by twelve seal faces of four characters each, forming a poetic inscription about 'Boya playing the lute', within further borders of striding beasts and stylized cloud scrolls to the rim; together with a small 'TLV' mirror cast with nine studs within a circle and outer square, enclosed by eight further studs and interspersed with 'T', 'L' and 'V' symbols, all between two inscriptions in kaishu and within triangle and scroll borders (2)

Compare two similar bronze mirrors illustrated in Circles of Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000, cat.nos. 38 (on the cover) and 39.