Box with “Pommel Scroll” Design

Period:: Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)

Date:: 14th century

Culture:: China

Medium:: Carved red, black, and yellow lacquer

Dimensions:: H. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); Diam. 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)

Classification:: Lacquer

Credit Line:: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936

Accession Number:: 36.100.178a, b

Not on view

Howard Mansfield , New York (until 1936; sold to MMA)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Immortals and Sages: Fusuma Paintings from Ryoan-Ji and the Lore of China in Japanese Art," 1993.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Red and Black: Chinese Lacquer, 13th–16th Century," September 7, 2011–June 10, 2012.

Timelines
Central and North Asia, 1000-1400 A.D.
China, 1000-1400 A.D.

Box with chi dragons amid clouds

Artist: Date: 13th century
Accession Number: 2015.500.1.4a, b Date: 13th century Medium: Carved black, red, and yellow lacquer Accession: 2015.500.1.4a, b On view in:Gallery 221

Square dish with long-tailed birds and camellias

Artist: Date: 14th century
Accession Number: 2015.500.1.5 Date: 14th century Medium: Carved black and brown lacquer Accession: 2015.500.1.5 On view in:Gallery 221

Buddha Shakyamuni with attendant bodhisattvas

Artist: Date: 12th–14th century
Accession Number: 34.26.1a, b Date: 12th–14th century Medium: Mammoth ivory Accession: 34.26.1a, b On view in:Gallery 219

Bottle with Peony Scroll

Artist: Date: mid-14th century
Accession Number: 26.271.1a, b Date: mid-14th century Medium: Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under a transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware) Accession: 26.271.1a, b On view in:Gallery 204

Monk Sengqie

Artist: Date: late 11th–12th century
Accession Number: 43.114 Date: late 11th–12th century Medium: Limestone with pigment Accession: 43.114 On view in:Gallery 208