清晚期 剔紅藝菊圖漆盒|Box with a scholar and chrysanthemums
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19th century · Carved red lacquer · Asian Art
Diminutive figures set in a towering landscape became a traditional motif in Chinese art. Here, a scholar-gentleman supervises two attendants carrying chrysanthemums, a plant whose late autumn bloom was thought to symbolize a gentleman’s lofty character.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 19th century
- Medium
- Carved red lacquer
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913
