Melon-shaped Box and Lid Engraved with a Lotus

CultureChinese

DateYuan dynasty (1279-1368)

MediumSilver

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number35-124/5 A,B

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionBox with 16-lobed sides, in shape resembling a melon. On the flat cover is an engraved design of lotus flowers and leaves.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

China Institute, New York. April 27 - June 1951.

Chinese Art Under the Mongols, Yale University Art Gallery, 1968-1969; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art, October 1 - November 24, 1968; Asia House Gallery, New York.

Unearthing China's Past, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 15, 1973 - February 15, 1974.

Provenance

Purchased through Laurence Sickman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.

Published References

Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Silver On The Occasion of The Silver Anniversary Of China Institute In America (New York: 1951.), 4 (repro.).

Sherman E. Lee, Wai-kam Ho, Chinese Art Under the Mongols: Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368, (Cleveland Cleveland Museum of Art; Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1968), no. 33f (repro.).

Jan Fontein, Tung Wu, Unearthing China’s Past, cat. no. 105 (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts; Greenwich, Connecticut; New York Graphic Society, 1973), 199 (repro.).

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