A Greek Hand Mirror in the Art Institute of Chicago Accompanied By a Half Tone
A Greek Hand Mirror in the Art Institute of Chicago Accompanied By a Half Tone
F B Frank Bigelow Tarbell
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, of Chicago, and has been deposited by him in the Art Institute *crf'*thi^ city. ' li is said, on what evidence is unknown, to have been found in Etrjirii. IAt'ls^lsWeiit&J. 'it is clearly of Greek, and not Etruscan, manufacture. The mirror-disk has a diameter of nineteen centimeters. The reflecting surface is very slightly, and at present not quite uniformly, convex. The edge of the disk is ornamented with the ^^ Qgg'''' pattern (not visible in the illustration), within which is a fine bead p...attern. The back of the disk is plain. The handle is at present detached from the disk, but the original connection is sufficiently guaranteed by traces upon the latter. At the back the bronze part of the handle is prolonged upward into a palmette, which served to make the attachment to the disk secure. In front the ornamental feature consists of a relief of a siren in 3 A Greek Hand-Mirrob front view, with recurved wings, surrounded by scrolls and palmettes. A strip of bead pattern above the siren's head matches that on the disk.
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