Five-lobed box and cover depicting three sages
Maker
Unidentified artist
DateQing Dynasty (1644-1911)
MediumCinnabar lacquer; Carving
Dimensions4 5/8 x 1 7/8 inches (11.7 x 4.8 cm)
CultureChina
ClassificationsDecorative Arts
Credit LineGeorge and Mary Rockwell Collection
Terms
- Decorative Arts
- Vessels - Boxes
- Carving
- Cinnabar lacquer
- Barrels
- Boxes (containers)
- Eating
- Fences
- Fingers
- Flowers
- Folklore
- Geometric patterns
- Hands
- Jars
- Ladles
- Landscapes
- Legends (Folk tales)
- Plant-derived motifs
- Plants
- Plum blossoms
- Robes
- Rock
- Spirals
- Trees
- Vessels - Boxes
- Chinese
Object number88.002.211
Collections
8th century
Unidentified artist
Ch'ing Dynasty, Ch'ien-lung Period (1736-1796); Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period (1
Unidentified artist
