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Keeping company with antiquity

(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
1662–1722
18th–19th century
Late 18th–early 19th century
18th century
18th century
18th century