Title

Silvered bronze covered box, Late Tang-Northern Song dynasty, China. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Silvered bronze covered box with peony and angular key-fret, Late Tang-Northern Song dynasty, China, 10th-11th century. A small circular silvered bronze box decorated with an open peony flower spray with leaves. The decoration appears on a circular ring-punched ground, with a band of angular key fret surrounding the medallion. The base section has a band of narrow incised pointed petals around the foot ring with incised highlights on a plain background.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

900th century

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B72_225

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

17,9Mb (537,6Kb) / 9,4in x 7,4in / 2829 x 2213 (300dpi)

Keywords

nature flower flowers plant country China Chinese color colour ornate location century dynasty concept peony 10th Century tenth century Tang Dynasty Museum of East Asian Art 11th century key fret key-fret Northern Song Song Dynasty object Eleventh Century Unknown bronze bronze object