Chinese Bronze Mirrors

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(1) Suzanne Muchnic, 'Ancient Chinese Bronze Mirrors' at the Huntington Give Broad View. Los Angeles Times. Nov 25, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/entertain ... se-mirrors-20111125,0,6360578.story
("With their [mirrors'] reflective sides turned to the back and their intricately decorated surfaces facing viewers * * *  measuring about 21/2 inches to 13 inches in diameter")

(2) Ancient Chinese Bronze Mirrors from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection. Huntington Library, Nov 12, 2011–May 14, 2012.
http://huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary_02.aspx?id=10052

(3) Chinese Bronze Mirrors to be Donated to Shanghai Museum Following Huntington Exhibition, Huntington Library, Nov 10, 2011.
http://huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary_02.aspx?id=10262

Note:
(a) Huntington Library was founded in 1919 by Henry E Huntington.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington_Library
(section 1 History)
(b) Qijia culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qijia_culture
(c)
(i) fretwork (n):
"1: decoration consisting of work adorned with frets
2: ornamental openwork or work in relief"
www.m-w.com

(ii) fret (n):
"1: an ornamental network; especially : a medieval metallic or jeweled net for a woman's headdress
2: an ornament or ornamental work often in relief consisting of small straight bars intersecting one another in right or oblique angles"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fret
(illustration for definition 2)

(iii) fretwork
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fretwork