Magic mirror
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.
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