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Bronze seal paste box with silver inlays, Ming dynasty, China, 16th century.
Bronze seal paste box with silver inlays, Ming dynasty, China, 16th century. A silver inlaid bronze square seal paste box. The top is decorated with a rebus of a monkey in a peach tree, deer, magpie and bees, a rebus meaning 'May you become a marquis'. The sides are decorated with silver swastika diaper inlay, each side with silver inlaid rectangular pictures with indented corners conveying other wishes for good fortune as follows: (i) a heron and a duck in a lotus pond, (ii) two peacocks on a peony, (iii) a hawk in a pine tree with a bird in a flight above a hound, (iv) two birds in a prunus tree.
Unique Identifier
AR917720
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
2842px × 2212px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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16TH CENTURY
ANIMAL
artefact
Artifact
Bird
BIRDS
Box
Bronze
china
CHINESE
country
DECORATION
DYNASTY
INLAID
INLAY
LOCATION
Metal
MING
MING DYNASTY
Monkey
Museum of East Asian Art
Object
Ornamentation
PATTERNED
Silver
SIXTEENTH CENTURY