The Cincinnati Art Museum has rediscovered a rare piece of art that spent more than 50 years in storage. But the "magic" mirror isn't the first discovery this curator has made.
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What was once thought to be an unremarkable, albeit old, Chinese mirror sitting in storage in a museum in the American midwest turned out to be a spectacular artefact full of awe and mystery. Dr Sung Hou-mei, the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Curator of East Asian Art, was researching the ancient artwork that the Ohio museum had collected since 1961. Then.