Mirror with Four Nipples and Eight Animals, AD 300, China, Western Jin dynasty (265-316). Bronze. Diameter: 19.6 cm; Overall: 1.3 cm; Rim: 1 cm; Weight: 1.495 kg. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee 1995.334.
Inscription: On the day of wu, the first month, the first year of Yongkang, I made the bright mirror at the first of dawn by refining the yellow and the white [metals]. Great fortune and wealth will come as a result. May you live a long life. Up above are the King Father [of the East] and the Queen Mother of the West.
