A Chinese Bronze Mirror with Inscriptions Of round form, cast around the large central knop with beasts, interspersed with recessed roundels to receive gemstones, encircled by a band of seal faces forming a poetic inscription, alternating with half-disc sun whorls between triangular borders, further enclosed by a band of scrolls to the rim. Period: Eastern Han Dynasty, dated to the fourth month year 196 A.D. Length: 17 cm.