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Keeping company with antiquity
Keeping company with antiquity

Keeping company with antiquity

Wu Changshuo (Chinese, 1842–1927)
1912
Medium/TechniqueBlack lacquered wood panel with gold and mother-of-pearl inlaid scripts
Dimensions69.1 x 188.6 x 7 cm (27 3/16 x 74 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Okakura Kakuzo
Accession numberRES.13.44
On View
On view
ClassificationsLacquer works
Collections
ProvenanceDonated to the MFA by Okakura Kakuzo. Okakura commissioned this Shanghai artist to produce a work for the Boston Museum.
18th century
Circular box
1662–1722
Circular incense box
18th–19th century
Covered incense box
Late 18th–early 19th century
Incense Box
18th century
Covered box
18th century
Inner figure
18th century
Circular dish
18th–19th century