Artworks

Lacquer box with peony scrolls

Artwork · Anonymous · 16th century–17th century · box · British Museum

A wooden box lacquered black and inlaid in mother-of-pearl with peony scrolls; the open flowers and metal wire date it to the sixteenth or seventeenth century. On the cover of Portal’s book; in the British Museum. 1 Portal 2000, pp. 134–135, fig. 71. ↩ Literatur Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.