Coromandel screen with Chinese palace scene
On display
Details
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Title
Coromandel screen with Chinese palace scene
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Associated place
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Date
17th century (1601 - 1700)
Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period (1661 - 1722) -
Material and technique
wood, covered in brown lacquer, with carved, painted, and incised decoration; traces of gilding
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Object type
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Dimensions
open 290 x 600 x 1.7 cm max. (height x width x depth)
individual panels 290 x 50.8 x 1.7 cm max. (height x width x depth) -
No. of items
12
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Credit line
Presented by Francis Mason, in memory of James Francis and Lady Evelyn Mason of Eynsham Hall, 1944.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 35 | West meets East -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EAX.5331
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Catalogue text
Twelvefold screen, Coromandel style lacquer on wood. Decorated on both sides. On the front a Palace scene within borders, the reverse with flowers, landscapes and still life.
In: Impey, O. R., and M. Tregear, Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese Lacquer from the Ashmolean Museum Collections (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1983)
Glossary of terms
lacquer
Further reading
Impey, O. R., and M. Tregear, Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese Lacquer from the Ashmolean Museum Collections (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1983), nos 4-5 on p. ix, illus. pp. 4-5
