Tray with Design of Cranes and Chrysanthemums

between 1300 and 1350

Chinese

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About the Artwork

A distinct group of extraordinarily fine carved lacquers known as “two bird” dishes were produced in China during the Yuan Dynasty (1279–1368). Based upon the method of carving and construction, this example is believed to date from the first half of the fourteenth century. During this time black lacquer was deeply carved to expose a background of ocher lacquer below a thin layer of red lacquer. This tray was originally owned by Buddhist monks and later used by tea ceremony enthusiasts in Japan.

Title Tray with Design of Cranes and Chrysanthemums

Artwork Date between 1300 and 1350

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Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Chinese

Medium Lacquer on wood

Dimensions Overall: 1 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches (3.8 × 29.2 cm)

Classification Lacquer

Department Asian Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Stoddard Fund for Asian Art and funds from the Gerald W. Chamberlin Foundation, Inc.

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 80.25

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Provenance

Klaus F. Naumann

1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bulletin of the DIA 58, no. 4. (1980): p. 191 (ill.).

Bulletin of the DIA 59, no. 2/3. (1981): (cover ill.); pp. 66-74, p. 66 (ill.).

"Family Art Game," Detroit News. April 14, 1985, p. 27 (ill.). [DIA Advertising Supplement.]

DIA. 100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, p. 52, 53 (ill.).

Mitchell, S.W. "The Asian Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts," Orientations, vol. 13, no. 5. (May 1982): pp. 14-36, (fig. 12).

Mitchell, S. "A portfolio of East Asian lacquers," Apollo, vol. 124, no. 298. (December 1986): p. 75 (ill.).

High Tea: Glorious Manifestations East and West. Exh. cat., Norton Museum of Art. West Palm Beach, Florida, 2014, p. 144.

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Chinese, Tray with Design of Cranes and Chrysanthemums, between 1300 and 1350, lacquer on wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Stoddard Fund for Asian Art and funds from the Gerald W. Chamberlin Foundation, Inc., 80.25.