Mirrors: Bronze mirror, Eastern Han dynasty, found in the Han graves of Lo-lang (Lelang), North Korea

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Consten, Eleanor von Erdberg
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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This is a so-called Hai Wang Mu mirror. She is Queen Mother of the West and is portrayed centre bottom, guarding the peaches of immortality. On her right is the hare preparing the elixir of immortality in the moon. On the other half of the mirror is portrayed Tung Wang Fu, Royal Lord of the East. -- d: 19 cm.

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1958

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This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.

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