designed 1927, manufactured 1931-1938
80.3 × 55.2 × 79.4 cm (31 5/8 × 21 3/4 × 31 1/4 in.)
Private Collection; [Galerie Francois Laffanour, Paris] sold; to David Teiger, Bernardsville, NJ; The Estate of David Teiger, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2017.
Red-lacquer-coated wood, the designs painted in black, green, and ochre lacquers on the red-lacquer ground; with a two-character inscription reading "Li Wang" inscribed in "lishu" (clerical script) on the underside in raw lacquer, the two-character inscription probably meaning "[Good] luck [to] Wang." Probably made in Sichuan province; probably recovered at Lelang (also spelled Lo-lang; Korean, Naknang), near T'o-sông-ni, southwest of P'yôngyang, Korea.
1st century CEChineseWood
17th-18th centuryBritishWood
16th centuryFrenchRed-lacquer-coated wood, the designs painted in black, green, and ochre...
1st century CEChineseLeaded bronze
1st-3rd century CERomanLeaded bronze, silver and copper inlays
1st century BCE-1st century CERomanWood
BritishWood
16th centuryItalianWalnut with inlaid wood
15th centuryItalianWood
15th centuryGerman