Bronze Box Mirror in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2010

Title: Bronze box mirror

Medium; Technique: Bronze

Culture: Greek

Period: Hellenistic

Date: last quarter of the 4th century B.C.

Dimensions: diameter 5 3/8in. (13.6cm)

Classification: Bronzes

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906

Accession Number: 06.1061

Description:

On the cover, profile head of a woman

The so-called box mirror, which came into use during the late fifth century B.C., consists of two cast-bronze disks: one has a polished reflecting surface, and the other fits over the mirror as a protective cover. The cover was often decorated with a cutout relief.


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