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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

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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.

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Bibliography:

	[Catalogue] Getz, John. 1917. The University Museum Section of Oriental Art. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 261, No. 400	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
	[Catalogue] Getz, John. 1916. The University Museum Exhibition of Oriental Art. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: No. 400, p. 261	View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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