Caption

Box, Chinese art, Chinese culture, Qing 1644–1911 style, early 20th century, China. Container with landscape motifs including staffage, boats, figural scenes, scholars/sages, defensive walls architectural, and swastikas. Materials not specified. Dimensions: height 33.7 cm; width 19.5 cm; depth 6.7 cm., A rectangular lacquered panel with an overall red background showing a detailed scene in darker brown and gold tones; the surface is decorated with a landscape of stylized clouds and rounded hills, bridges and archways, small pavilion-like structures, and boats on water, with several human figures standing or seated throughout; the edges show slight wear with darker brown spots, and there is a small metal clasp centered along the bottom edge.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A28_029

License type

Rights managed

Available size

67.3Mb (2.2Mb) / 20.0in x 13.1in / 6000 x 3923 (300dpi)

Keywords

Box Chinese art Chinese culture Qing 1644–1911 style early 20th century China Container landscape motifs staffage boats figural scenes scholars sages defensive walls architectural swastikas Materials specified Dimensions height 33.7 cm width 19.5 cm depth 6.7 cm rectangular lacquered panel red background showing detailed scene darker brown gold tones surface decorated landscape stylized clouds rounded hills bridges archways small pavilion- structures water several human figures standing seated edges slight wear darker brown spots small metal clasp centered bottom edge.