Silver mirror

A round hand mirror of polished silver, its disk marked with concentric incised rings and a beaded border around the edge. A cast bracket with a knob joins the disk to a slender, turned handle that ends in a small foot. The object is shown whole against a plain gray ground.

Look closer: The beaded border of the rim is a row of small repeated bead forms, and the tiny knob at the handle's end is easy to overlook.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st century CE

Medium

Silver

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3178 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1907