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lllE AMERICAS- MLSKi'M .lOLRSAL 



existence and use of mirrors from an earlier period. The one pieturecl is 

 decorated witli relief ornaments in concentric rings. The outer ring bears 

 ideographs; the .second ring presents the fa\i)rite and nnuli discussed motive 





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BRONZE TEMPLE BELL. CHOU DYNASTY (I 1 22-255 B. C . ) (HEIGHT \X FT.) 



^Meaning of knol> ornamont not tliorouKhlj- understood; similar ornaments occur on 

 Cliiuese metal mirrors 



"The oldest extant witne.sses of the antiquity of Cliinese culture are the sacrificial 

 vessels and bells of the Shang and CMiou Dyna.sties" 



