Title

Carved brown lacquer box with phoenixes, mid-late Ming dynasty, China, 1500-1644. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Carved brown lacquer box with phoenixes, mid-late Ming dynasty, China, 1500-1644. A brown lacquer rectangular box and cover. The cover is boldly carved with a pair of phoenixes amongst large peony heads and dense foliage. The sides have similar flowers, the flower-head centres with diaper pattern. The background is painted matt red with a metal lock.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

1500

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B74_129

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

18,0Mb (737,0Kb) / 9,4in x 7,4in / 2834 x 2216 (300dpi)

Keywords

horizontal Asian Asia ORIENTAL arts country lock container China art Chinese storage box continent color colour carved ming location century artefact dynasty Ming Dynasty closed Phoenix rectangular mythology artifact 17th century lacquer mythical creature 16th century sixteenth century seventeenth century Museum of East Asian Art mythical beast object Unknown object