gold and silver staggered pattern bronze mirrors

The gold and silver inlaid bronze mirror is a kind of ancient mirror. It is a mirror made of gold and silver wires or sheets into various patterns and embedded on the back of the bronze mirror as decoration. The gold and silver inlaid craft first appeared in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period and was quite popular in the middle of the Warring States Period. The gold and silver inlaid mirror can be divided into two types according to the different patterns: hunting mirror and snake dragon mirror. The gold and silver inlaid hunting mirror is usually round, with a small button and a double round button seat. The interlayer is made by embedding the mirror surface on the outer edge of the mirror back. The main patterns such as human-animal fighting and dragon and phoenix vortex patterns are all made of "gold inlaid", and the small vortex patterns around them are made of "silver inlaid".

This gold and silver inlaid mirror is round, interlayer, and the mirror surface is embedded on the outer edge of the mirror back. Small round button, square button seat, and concave square grid around the periphery. The pattern is a combination of ground pattern and main pattern. The main pattern is divided into two groups, one group is two gold inlaid goats with wide eyes and hoof-stomping; the other group is two phoenixes with wings spread. The bodies of the twin phoenixes and the twin sheep are inlaid with gold threads, making the whole look more gorgeous and rich. This gold and silver inlaid mirror is finely crafted, very valuable, and rarely unearthed.