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Title:Bronze mirror cover
Period:Late Classical
Date:4th century BCE
Culture:Greek
Medium:Bronze
Dimensions:diameter 6 3/4in. (17.2cm)
Classification:Bronzes
Credit Line:Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number:17.190.2073
Fürtwangler, Adolf and Karl Reichhold. 1904. Griechische Vasenmalerei : Auswahl hervorragender Vasenbilder. pp. 42–43, fig. 18, München.
Smith, Cecil H. Sir and Librairie Centrale des Beaux-arts. 1913[Librairie centrale des beaux-arts]. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan: Bronzes, antique Greek and Roman, including some antique objects in gold and silver. no. 59, p. 23, pl. XXXII, Paris.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1914. Guide to the Loan Exhibition of the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection. p. 4, New York.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1917. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 135, fig. 85, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1927. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 174–75, fig. 119, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 174–75, fig. 119, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Schefold, Karl. 1934. Untersuchungen zu den Kertscher Vasen. p. 99, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co.
Scheffer, Thassilo von. 1935. Die Kultur der Griechen. pl. 120, Wien: Phaidon Press.
Webster, Thomas Bertram Lonsdale. 1939. "Tondo Composition in Archaic and Classical Greek Art." The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 59(2): p. 111.
Züchner, Wolfgang. 1942. "Griechische Klappspiegel. Ph.D. diss.." Ph.D. Diss. no. 164, pp. 9, 76, 98–101, 184, 197–98, 201, 204, fig. 98. Walter de Gruyter & Co.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 111, 251, pl. 91e, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Lutz, Albert. 2019. Spiegel. Der Mensch im Wilderschein. no. 57, p. 99, Zürich: Wienand Verlag.
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