This bronze mirror was ... Owning a mirror was said to be one of the traits of a ‘magician’ in the Roman world. In other cultures a round mirror was seen as a miniature version of the sun ...

Amid the thousands of treasures in the Cincinnati Art Museum’s East Asian art collection, a small bronze mirror dating back to the 15th or 16th century always seemed rather unremarkable.

Neil MacGregor tells the story of a bronze mirror found at the bottom of a sacred pond. Show more The history of humanity as told through one hundred objects from the British Museum in London.