Double-tier Mirror
A round bronze mirror with a pierced openwork design of four interlocking, serpentine creatures with curled tails and scrolled bodies, arranged around a central knob. Green patina and corrosion cover the surface, and the cutout background reveals the dark ground beneath.
Look closer: The curled spiral scrolls along the outer rim blend into the corroded edge and are easy to overlook.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 300s BCE
- Medium
- bronze
- Source
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Size
- 3400 × 3173 px
Public domain · The Cleveland Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date -300).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee