Mirror with Handle, Decorated with "Double Happiness" and Five Bats
A round, bronze-toned hand mirror with a long flat handle. The face is engraved with the large character for double happiness inside a ring, framed by scrolling cloud motifs, with a small shop seal below. The raking light brings out the fine engraving and the worn metallic sheen of the surface.
Look closer: A small seal with characters reading 湯萬堂 sits below the ring on the face.
- Artist
- Tang Wanheng
- Date
- c. 1800
- Medium
- brass
- Source
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Size
- 2170 × 3400 px
Public domain · The Cleveland Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1810).
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