Two 'sunburst' silvered bronze mirrors Western Han dynasty, 2nd / 1st Century BC

each of circular form, cast to the well with the large central knop encircled by an eight-pointed 'sunburst' motif reserved against linked raised arcs, with seal script characters arrayed in the interstices, the larger mirror with plain trim, encircled by combed bands of radiating lines, the smaller with a further long inscription in seal script within triangle and cloud scroll borders (2)

First mirror: Warren E. Cox, New York.