Interactive Gigazoom • Scroll or Double-Click
100%
Description
The inside of this shell preserves the earliest, extant figure paintings in Chinese history.
Provenance
Samuel Hubert Minkenhof [1879–1956], Amsterdam, Netherlands, and New York, NY; (C.T. Loo 盧芹齋 [1880–1957], Paris, France, and New York, NY, purchased with funds from Homer H. Tielke Jr. [1918–2004] for gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Dimensions
7.5 × 9 cm
Movement / Period
Accession No
1957.141
Official Citations
Curatorial Affinity Stream
Continuing the Universe of Unknown Artist
Chinese Art • China, Warring States period (475–221 BCE) to Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE) • Harmonious Works & Contemporaries
Continuous Discovery