  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  Title
  Box in the form of a melon
  
  
  Artwork Date
  between 1522 and 1566
  
  Artist
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  Life Dates
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  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  Chinese
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group.
  
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Lacquer, wood
  
  
  Dimensions
  4 3/8 &Atilde;&#151; 3 1/2 inches (11.1 &Atilde;&#151; 8.9 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Lacquer
  
  
  Department
  Asian Art
  
  
  Credit
  Gift of K. T. Keller
  
  
  
  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&acirc;&#128;&#153;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&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  63.209
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
  
  
  
