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The Hunt
300–100 BCE
- Medium
- Painted clamshell
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 7.5 x 9 cm (2 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- China, Warring States period (475–221 BCE) to Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Homer H. Tielke Jr., in honor of the fortieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Homer H. Tielke Sr.
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The inside of this shell preserves the earliest, extant figure paintings in Chinese history.
