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2. Celadon - Wikipedia

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   Celadon (/ ˈ s ɛ l ə d ɒ n /) is a term for pottery denoting both wares glazed in the jade green celadon color, also known as greenware or "green ware" (the term specialists now tend to use), [1] and a type of transparent glaze, often with small cracks, that was first used on greenware, but later used on other porcelains.

3. Mirrors in Mesoamerican culture - Wikipedia

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   Mirrors were viewed as metaphors for sacred caves and as conduits for supernatural forces; they were associated with fiery hearths and pools of water because of their bright surfaces. Mirrors were also closely associated with the sun. [6] Mirrors were often used in pre-Columbian Mexico to reveal a person's destiny through divination. [7]

4. Ge ware - Wikipedia

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   The wares are closely related to Guan ware, also notable for crackle effects, and also Longquan celadon. [12] Even more than in Guan ware, the glaze colour is a cream or ivory tending to grey or brown, with little green in it, although the wares come under the broad celadon grouping.

5. Mirror - Wikipedia

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   A mirror reflecting the image of a vase A first-surface mirror coated with aluminium and enhanced with dielectric coatings. The angle of the incident light (represented by both the light in the mirror and the shadow behind it) exactly matches the angle of reflection (the reflected light shining on the table). 4.5-metre (15 ft)-tall acoustic mirror near Kilnsea Grange, East Yorkshire, UK, from ...

6. Aranmula Kannadi - Wikipedia

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   The mirrors are considered one of the eight auspicious items or "ashtamangalyam" used in the entry of a bride at a wedding venue. [4] [1] Chief minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan presented an Aranmula mirror to King Hamad of Bahrain during a visit there in 2017. The British Museum in London has an Aranmula mirror 45 centimeters tall in its ...

7. House of mirrors - Wikipedia

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   The climax of the 1947 Orson Welles film The Lady from Shanghai takes place in a maze of mirrors. In the finale of Enter the Dragon (1973), Bruce Lee's character navigates a mirror maze by breaking through the mirrors. Francisco Scaramanga's "Fun House" in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun has a house of mirrors.