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Mirror

Artist Unknown
Datecirca 300 BCE with 19th century engraving
MediumCopper alloy (bronze)
Dimensionsheight, width, and depth: 10 1/2 × 5 3/4 × 1/4 in. (26.7 × 14.6 × 0.6 cm)
thickness (disk): 1/16 in. (0.2 cm)
height, max width, and min width (handle): 4 × 1 5/8 × 3/16 in. (10.2 × 4.1 × 0.5 cm)
weight: 185.5g
ClassificationsNatural Substances
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes
Object numberG.74.19.6
On View
On view
ProvenanceProvenience unknown. [Mathias Komor, New York]; sold to Mr. Gordon Hanes (1916–1995) and Mrs. Helen Copenhaver Hanes (1917–2013), Winston-Salem, NC, 1974; given to NCMA, 1974.Published References"Recent Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 13, nos. 1 and 2 (1975), no. 99, illus. (b-w).

Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Recent Acquisitions," November 23, 1975-February 1, 1976.

Tallahassee, FL, The Museum of Florida History, "Reflections on the Etruscan Mirror," October 1-November 30, 1981, cat. no. 20.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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