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Source Description
The carved lacquer box and lobed silver container nearby both feature pairs of birds and flowers on their covers. There is a striking similarity in decoration, shape, and aesthetic appeal. Both boxes suggest that successful designs and shapes circulated among craftsmen, workshops, and beyond regional borders.
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Document identity
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169510
label
Round Box with Bird and Peonies Design
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169510
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object
title
Round Box with Bird and Peonies Design
description
The carved lacquer box and lobed silver container nearby both feature pairs of birds and flowers on their covers. There is a striking similarity in decoration, shape, and aesthetic appeal. Both boxes suggest that successful designs and shapes circulated among craftsmen, workshops, and beyond regional borders.
date
c. 1300
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CC0
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en
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Q80076898
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Lacquer
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 21 x 40.6 cm (8 1/4 x 16 in.); Lid: 8.5 x 40.6 cm (3 3/8 x 16 in.); Bottom: 12.5 x 40.6 cm (4 15/16 x 16 in.)
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China, late Southern Song (1127–1279) to early Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)
accession
2011.34
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carved lacquer
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Round Box with Bird and Peonies Design (雕漆雙綬帶鳥牡丹紋圓盒), c. 1300. China, late Southern Song (1127–1279) to early Yuan dynasty (1271–1368). Carved lacquer; overall: 21 x 40.6 cm (8 1/4 x 16 in.); lid: 8.5 x 40.6 cm (3 3/8 x 16 in.); bottom: 12.5 x 40.6 cm (4 15/16 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2011.34
titleInOriginalLanguage
雕漆雙綬帶鳥牡丹紋圓盒
collection
China - Song Dynasty
inscriptions
inscription
山
inscription_remark
Both the interior of the cover and the base are inscribed with the Chinese character "shan," meaning mountain.
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1
didYouKnow
Lacquer ware was always a valuable product in Chinese material culture and was often used as precious gifts in diplomatic, religious, and economic exchanges with other countries—Japan, for example, where this box was long preserved and acquired.
citations
citation
Garner, Harry Mason. <em>Chinese Lacquer</em>. London: Faber, 1979.
citation
Tokugawa Bijutsukan 徳川美術館, and Nezu Bijutsukan 根津美術館. <em>Chōshitsu: urushi no rerīfu</em> [彫漆 : うるしのレリーフ = Carved lacquer]. [Nagoya-shi]: Tokugawa Bijutsukan, 1984.
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Watt, James C. Y., and Barbara Brennan Ford.<em> East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection</em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991.
citation
<em>Karamono shikki: Chūgoku, Chōsen, Ryūkyū </em>[唐物漆器 : 中国・朝鮮・琉球 = Karamono: Imported Lacquerwork-Chinese, Korean, and Ryukyuan (Okinawa)]. Nagoya-shi: Tokugawa Bijutsukan, 1997.
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<em>Sō Gen no bi: denrai no shikki to chūshin ni </em>[宋元の美 : 伝来の漆器を中心に = Colors and forms of Song and Yuan China - featuring lacquerwares, ceramics and metalwares]. Tōkyō: Nezu Bijutsukan, 2004.
citation
Negrotti, Rosanna<em>.</em>"Acquisition of the Year." <em>Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors, </em>December 2011, Vol. 174, Issue 593, pp. 62–73.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 64, fig. 4
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Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. <em>Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 10, 108–109
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“Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 2010-2011.” <em>Archives of Asian Art</em> 62 (2012): 105–153.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 114, fig. 10
citation
Franklin, David. “Recent Acquisitions (2005—11) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” <em>The Burlington Magazine</em> 154, no. 1312 (2012): 525–532.
page_number
Reproduced: fig. II, pp. 525
citation
Springer, Samantha. "Re-examining the Cleveland Carved Lacquer Box: The Conservator's Perspective." <em>Orientations</em>; Vol. 44 No. 8 (November/December 2013), 76–78.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 76–78, Fig. 1-4
citation
Griswold, William, Xiaofei Tian, Richard Von Glahn, Feng Zhao, S. J. Vainker, Masaaki Itakura, Jiang Wu, et al. <em>China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta</em>. Edited by Clarissa Von Spee. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 218–219, no. 94
creditline
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 08:42:29.395000
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169510
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Chinese Art
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China - Song Dynasty
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carved lacquer
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