Photo Notes 真子飞霜镜
frost mirror, face down, diameter 21.5cm.
Mirror eight sunflower shaped, round button. Button decorative auspicious clouds above supporting month lines, decorative pool below the hill, from which a lotus pool, namely the button seat. The left one referring to official scholars, sit and instruments, set before the incense table, with bamboo. On the right side of a chicken, habitat in the stone above, Feng decorative flower with 6 petals two branch. Extracellular domain with a week for inscription : "Phoenix double mirror Southern Gold, each with Yin and Yang, sun Heng meeting, white lotus box, Kingfisher Qiong Yao belt, concentric, heart dating, as open bile and chiharu." Mirror inscriptions intended for bronze casting beautiful praise, at the same time that the true love. The first sentence" Phoenix double mirror" to convey such information: the mirror at the time should be two two pairs.
The image of bronze mirrors are referred to as " Mako frost" mirror, many unearthed in Jiangsu province. Besides the above type, and button decorated" Mako frost" inscription, a turtle button and mirror for square and decorated with" Hou Jinzhi" inscription.