IDENTIFIERS
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id:	16567
accession number:	O.16-1984

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 3 March 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Mirror with a ship at sea. Bronze. This circular mirror has a raised rim and a central knob. It is decorated with a ship at sea with figures watching as a dragon in a cloud confronts them, fishes emerging from waves, and the sun with the three-legged crow and the moon with a cassia tree (the hare beneath the tree is now missing) in clouds above. An inscription in four seal characters, enclosed in a cartouche is written at the top. The bronze is thick and has a green patination.
title:	mirror

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown before donor


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Gompertz Collection
creditline: Gompertz Gift

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/16567

PEOPLE
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figures

SUBJECTS
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ship
dragon
fish
Crow
tree
sea
ship
dragon
fish
Crow
tree
sea



CATEGORIES
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category: metalwork

DATING
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creation date:	1100 - 1300
creation date earliest:	1100
creation date latest:	1300
culture:	Koryo Dynasty
culture:	12th Century
culture:	13th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


CITATIONS
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Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum, A Complete Catalogue
Korean Days - Korean Art in Europe
Later Chinese Bronzes
Ri-o-ke Hakubutsukan Shozo-hin Shashin-cho
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