Box with scene of bathing children

14th century

Not on view

This tiny box, previously thought to date to the sixteenth century, can be reassigned to the fourteenth after comparison with an example bearing an image of the poet Tao Qian, which dates to the first half of the fourteenth century. The large, unarticulated shapes of the rocks and the use of a single pattern for the low-relief background are similar on both boxes, as are the thick incisions used to define the figures' clothing and the large oval faces with nondescript features.

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元剔紅浴嬰圖漆盒
Title: Box with scene of bathing children
Period: Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)
Date: 14th century
Culture: China
Medium: Carved red lacquer
Dimensions: Diam. 2 1/2 in. (6.5 cm)
Classification: Lacquer
Credit Line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015
Object Number: 2015.500.1.48a, b
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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