Box with pommel scrolls

China

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This design is commonly known as the "pommel scroll" pattern because the bracket-shaped scroll resembles the pommel of a Chinese sword. The design was popular in lacquer, ceramics, and metalwork in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and remained important in carved lacquer in the fifteenth century.

Box with pommel scrolls, Carved polychrome lacquer (tixi), China

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Box with pommel scrolls, Carved polychrome lacquer (tixi), China
Box with pommel scrolls, Carved polychrome lacquer (tixi), China
Box with pommel scrolls, Carved polychrome lacquer (tixi), China

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