id:			169512
accession number:	2011.34.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.34.b
updated:		2025-04-16 18:19:37.018000

Round Box with Bird and Peonies Design, 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.b

title:				Round Box with Bird and Peonies Design
title in original language:	雕漆雙綬帶鳥牡丹紋圓盒
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creation date:			c. 1300
creation date earliest:		1290
creation date latest:		1310
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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culture:	China, late Southern Song (1127–1279) to early Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)
technique:	carved lacquer
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Song Dynasty
type:		Lacquer
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CREATORS

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measurements: 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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	inscription:	山
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta
	opening date:   2023-09-10T04:00:00
	<i>China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 100)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 29, 2011-September 20, 2011).', 'opening_date': '2011-07-29T04:00:00Z'}

* {'description': '<em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 241)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 5, 2013-January 9, 2015).', 'opening_date': '2013-12-05T05:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	Private collection, Japan
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	(Takashi Yanagi at Yanagi Fine Art Shop, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–2011
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2011–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Garner, Harry Mason. <em>Chinese Lacquer</em>. London: Faber, 1979.
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	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.
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	<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.
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	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
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/43677806

	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
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/23232806

	Springer, Samantha. "Re-examining the Cleveland Carved Lacquer Box: The Conservator's Perspective." <em>Orientations</em>; Volume 44 Number 8 (November/December 2013), 76–78.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 76–78, Fig. 1-4
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