Lacquer writing brush and lid with peonies
Details
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Title
Lacquer writing brush and lid with peonies
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Associated place
China (place of creation) -
Date
1st half of the 15th century
Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644) -
Material and technique
red lacquer, carved
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
with lid 24.8 cm (height)
without lid 23.6 cm (height)
1.7 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
2
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Credit line
Presented by E. H. North, 1967.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1967.198
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Catalogue text
Carved lacquer pen in red lacquer. The richness of colour is well preserved in this piece of simple carving.
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 b on p. ix, illus. p. 6
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