The mirror has six petals and round buttons. There are six double petals on the gold sheet around the button, each with three petals and one petal missing. Outside, there are six silver coins. There are five petals decorated with gold between the heart-shaped patterns The leveling level of gold and silver in the Tang Dynasty was very high, and this bronze mirror is an example. In the Tang Dynasty, the flower pattern gradually became the theme pattern of the bronze mirror, which gave birth to a new type of bronze mirror-Ruihua Mirror, which was called Bao Huajian in ancient times, and also had the names of Baoxiang Hua Jing, Huazhijian and TuanHua Jing. Most of them are sunflower-shaped, diamond-shaped and round, and they are all decorated with petals, bracts and flowers. According to their shapes, the decorative flowers in Ruishang can be divided into two categories: one is sketch flowers, with different kinds of flowers and branches alternately arranged, and the flowers are either in bud or in bud, and the branches and leaves are decorated with magpies and butterflies, which constitutes a colorful scene. The other is Baohua, which refers to a decorative flower pattern formed by artistic treatment of some natural flowers (mainly lotus flowers). Baohua is full and elegant, which is the perfect representative of the style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, it was very popular in silk fabrics, bronze mirrors and grottoes, and was deeply loved by people. Jia Dao once gave a vivid description of Baoxiang glasses in his poem: "I don't know what evening it is, urging the balcony to approach the mirror platform. Who knows that hibiscus is planted in the water, and one is opened in the bronze mirror. "
This precious reading mirror is a masterpiece of the Tang Dynasty. It is not only standard in modeling, heavy in texture and beautiful in pattern stretching, but also adopts a special gold and silver casting method, and the pattern is gold. In the Tang Dynasty, the proportion of tin in mirror copper was large, so the copper color was silvery white. Gold, silver and white complement each other, which can better show the grandeur of the Tang Dynasty.