1st-2nd century CE
6.2 x 4.2 x 8.4 cm (2 7/16 x 1 5/8 x 3 5/16 in.)
J. Carlebach Gallery, NY; to Frederick M. Watkins, New Haven, CT, bequest; to the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, 1972.
Inlaid Lacquer: wooden core with black lacquer and inlays of mother-of-pearl and twisted wire; with metal (brass?) fittings
18th-19th centuryKoreanBirch
20th centuryAmericanPainted and chromed tubular steel pipe frame wound with flag halyard
20th centuryDanishMahogany and pine with brass
18th centuryAmericanMarble
19th centuryItalianMahogany and ebony (secondary woods: mahogany and pine), gilt-brass, and brass
19th centuryAmericanRed-lacquer-coated wood, the designs painted in black, green, and ochre lacquers on the red-lacquer ground. 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. Attached to a reconstructed gilt wood stand.
1st century CEChineseTwo-ply corrugated cardboard and masonite
20th centuryAmericanEuropean ash with later American oak handgrips
16th-17th centuryBritishBent laminated birch veneers, bent plywood
20th centuryBritish, EnglishTubular steel, wood, cane
20th centuryGerman