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Chased silver covered box enriched with niello
Chased silver covered box enriched with niello
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Chased silver covered box enriched with niello Southern Song-Yuan dynasty (13th century)
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Chased silver covered box enriched with niello
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BATEA : 306
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box
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metal; silver; Song; niello; Yuan; box; landscape; figures; musical instrument; egret; fish; China
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A circular, chased silver covered box of Song to early Ming lacquer shape with circular, slightly raised section on the top, the base without a foot rim. Decorated on the top with numerous ladies and attendants engaged in various pursuits in a garden setting, their hair accentutated with silver sulphide niello. The curved sides with birds amid prunus, chrysanthemum and other flowers, the base section with egrets in a lotus pond in various positions chasing fish, one of which is trying to hide. One of the ladies is playing a pipa held half-way between the vertical and horizontal positions. By the Ming dynasty the pipa was played in the horizontal position. In the Tang it was played vertically.
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silver & niello
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good
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4.1cm
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7.3cm
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13th century
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Southern Song-Yuan
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China
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