Artworks

Lacquer sutra box

Artwork · Anonymous · 13th century · box · British Museum

One of only about fourteen surviving pieces of Koryŏ lacquer, eight of them sutra boxes: peony scrolls and stylized chrysanthemums in mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell with twisted metal wire, like Yuan inlaid lacquer — perhaps for the printed Tripitaka. In the British Museum. 1 Portal 2000, pp. 99–100, fig. 51. ↩ Literatur Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.