Trefoil-shaped covered box with decoration of chrysanthemums, ca.12th century
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Trefoil-shaped covered box with decoration of chrysanthemums

ca.12th century

Medium
Lacquer inlaid with mother-of-pearl and tortoise shell over pigment and brass wire
Classification
Lacquer
Dimensions
H. 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); L. 4 in. (10.2 cm); D. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Culture
Korea
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asian Art
Credit line
Fletcher Fund, 1925
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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