Pen tray depicting the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
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Details
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Title
Pen tray depicting the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
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Associated people
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Associated place
China (place of creation) -
Date
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Material and technique
wood, covered in yellow lacquer, and with decoration carved through red lacquer
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Object type
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Dimensions
12.5 x 38.2 x 2.5 cm (height x width x depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by E. H. North, 1964.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 38 | China from AD 800 -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1964.171
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Catalogue text
Carved lacquer pen tray, showing the sages in the bamboo grove. These men are an historic group, often used in decoration. The upper layer is of red lacquer carved down to a yellow background.
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), no. 6 a on p. ix, illus. p. 6
