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View full screenSquare measure of red, green and brown lacquered wood, carved in diaoqi technique with five-clawed dragons in clouds above mountains and sea, with reign mark on base, and with wooden stand: China, Ming Dynasty, Jiajing mark and period, 1521 - 1567 AD
A.1930.496
China, East Asia
16th century
Jiajing reign, Ming Dynasty, Chinese
Carved polychrome lacquer
Depicted: Mount Meru
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Illustrated in Fritz Low-Beer, Chinese lacquer of the middle and late Ming period, The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm Bulletin 24 (1952), no. 61.
Hu, Shih-chang, Chinese Lacquer (National Museums of Scotland Publishing, 1998), no. 19
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