Jar with Scenes of Frolicking Xingxing
1302
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Jar with Scenes of Frolicking Xingxing, 1302. Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333). Zelkova wood, covered with hemp cloth and colored lacquer, and bronze-plated wood fittings; diameter: 47.2 cm (18 9/16 in.); overall: 49.4 cm (19 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1984.8 To make this vessel, a wooden form was covered with successive layers of lacquer, the clear sap of the highly toxic Rhus verniciflua tree.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Lacquer
- Formatted Medium
- Zelkova wood, covered with hemp cloth and colored lacquer, and bronze-plated wood fittings
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 47.2 cm (18 9/16 in.); Overall: 49.4 cm (19 7/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Dated 1302
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1984.8
- Credit Line
- Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review for 1984, Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection, Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art, Stories in Japanese Art (Japanese art rotation)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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