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Coromandel Screen Panel
| Object Number: | C153B |
| Current Location: | Collections storage |
| Culture: | Chinese |
| Provenience: | China |
| Period: | Ming Dynasty |
| Date Made: | Ming Dynasty |
| Early Date: | 1368 |
| Late Date: | 1644 |
| Section: | Asian |
| Materials: | Wood Lacquer |
| Technique: | Lacquered Carved Painted |
| Iconography: | Palace Vases Chinese Vessel Type Jewels Fungus Coral Fruit Flowers Landscape Court Ladies Attendants Horses Rabbit Dogs Deer Peacocks Cranes Games Battledore Shuttlecock Dancing Music Chess Reading Painting Mythological Animals Birds Pheasant |
| Credit Line: | Gift of C. T. Loo, 1916 |
| Other Number | Getz 400 - Other Number |
Description
Lacquered wood 12 panel folding screen. Incised designs painted with various colored lacs. Front with scenes in an imperial palace by the water, probably the Han Kung Ya Tsih(Distinguished gathering at the Han palace) or the Hua Yueh Lou of the emperor Ming Huang of the Tang dynasty. Ladies of the court and attendants with horses, rabbits, lapdogs, pet deer, peacocks and cranes. Figures shown playing battledore and shuttlecock, swinging, dancing, boating, riding horseback, playing music, playing chess, reading, painting and embroidering. Border with vases, ancient bronze vessels, jade ornaments, jewels, lingzhi (fungus of longevity), coral and baskets of fruit and flowers. Back of screen each leaf represents a separate picture of flowers, rocks, birds and especially types of pheasants. Border with mythological animals, fruits and ancient bronze vessels.
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue] Getz, John. 1917. The University Museum Section of Oriental Art. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 261, No. 400 | View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference | |
| [Catalogue] Getz, John. 1916. The Univesity Museum Exhibition of Oriental Art. : Page/Fig./Plate: No. 400, p. 261 | View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference |
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