Lacquer

Box with Landscape and a Pavilion Design

  • China Ming dynasty, dated 1403-25
  • Wood, carved red lacquer
  • h: 7.4cm md: 22.0cm bd: 20.1cm
  • [50504]

Carved lacquer wares were highly prized in Japan from the Kamakura through Muromachi periods. Examples, as here, of Yongle era carved lacquer, were particularly desirable amongst such carved lacquer works.