Magic mirror

Institution

Ajuntament de Girona

Object description:

Magic mirror. Bronze disk 4-6 mm. thick with a handle. On one face bas-relief figures are sculpted (of birds, trees and so on), while on the other totally flat a combination of tin and mercury was applied to given a mirror effect. When a great quantity of light was reflected on the mirror side the drawings engraved on the other side were seen on the screen with relative precision.

Object/Work type:

magic mirrors

Location:

Gerona - Spain

Object measurements:

27 x 18 x 0,3 cm

Production

Unknown

Date: 1880 ca.

Place: Japan

Subject/theme:

mirrors, visual arts

Resource

Rights Type: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ 

Date Taken: 1996

Record

Rights Type: CC0

Source: Ajuntament de Girona

Identifier: MC-MP00871