元 朱面剔犀劍環紋漆盒|Box with Pommel Scroll Design
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14th century · Carved red and black lacquer · Asian Art
The lush spirals carved into the lacquer illustrate a design commonly known as “pommel scroll” because the bracket-like shapes resemble the pommel of a Chinese sword. This motif was popular in lacquer, ceramics, and metalwork in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and remained so in carved lacquer, as both a primary subject and as a decorative embellishment, for centuries.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 14th century
- Medium
- Carved red and black lacquer
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015
