Title

Chased silver covered box, Southern Song-Yuan dynasty, China, 13th century. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Chased silver covered box enriched with niello, Southern Song-Yuan dynasty, China, 13th century.A circular, chased silver covered box of Song to early Ming lacquer shape. The box is decorated on the top with numerous ladies and attendants engaged in various pursuits in a garden setting, their hair accentutated with silver sulphide niello. The curved sides show birds amid prunus, chrysanthemum and other flowers. The base section with egrets in a lotus pond in various positions chasing fish, one of which is trying to hide. One of the ladies is playing a pipa held half-way between the vertical and horizontal positions.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

1200

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B72_227

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

17,9Mb (548,9Kb) / 9,5in x 7,4in / 2836 x 2207 (300dpi)

Keywords

nature female women woman people music garden flower flowers plant arts bird birds country China Chinese color colour chrysanthemum ornate location circular century musical instrument lady dynasty concept lotus peony Thirteenth Century 13th century Museum of East Asian Art chased silver niello Southern Song dynasty Yuan dynasty object Unknown silver silver object