Octagonal box with flowers and a garden scene
Details
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Title
Octagonal box with flowers and a garden scene
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Associated place
China (place of creation) -
Date
16th century (1501 - 1600) -
Material and technique
wood, covered in red lacquer, with carved decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 24 x 24 cm max. (height x width x depth) -
No. of items
2
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Credit line
Presented by E. H. North, 1964.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1964.172
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Catalogue text
Octagonal covered box of carved red lacquer. The carved panels on the sides are deeply cut and smoothly carved showing the flowers of the seasons. An idyllic garden scene on the cover is richly and deeply cut.
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. 3 on p. viii, illus. p. 3
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