中国儿童玩雪球的香盒 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	中国儿童玩雪球的香盒
品名（英）	Incense box with Chinese children playing with snowballs
入馆年号	1914年，14.40.824a–h
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1700 - 公元 1799
创作地区
分类	油漆（Lacquer）
尺寸	高 2 3/4 英寸 (7 厘米); 宽 5 英寸 (12.7 厘米); 深 4 英寸 (10.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个八叶香盒有小弯曲的腿。盖子上的装饰显示中国儿童在玩大雪球或雪花;背景是一棵白雪覆盖的树和湖水的波浪。在盒子的侧面，漩涡装饰中描绘了各种象征性或吉祥的动物，例如野兔、老虎、鹤和狮子。盒子里有三个小香盒。其中两个是蝴蝶的形状，而另一个是放置在它们之间的菱形盒子，并装饰有牡丹图案。香盒上装饰有几种 maki-e（用金和/或银洒粉装饰）技术，其中包括细致的 okibirame（放置在粘性漆表面上的单个金片）和珍珠母镶嵌。盒子执行得非常精细，注重构图和技术的每一个细节。香盒的样式、形状和图案让人想起 18 世纪的香盒，其中一些是欧洲贵族作为异国情调的好奇心拥有的，但这个盒子是在明治时代（1868-1912 年）十八世纪品味复兴期间制造的。
介绍（英）	This eight-lobed incense box has small curvy legs. The decoration on the lid shows Chinese children playing with large snowballs or snowflakes; in the background are a snow-covered tree and waves of a lake. On the side of the box, various symbolic or auspicious animals are depicted in cartouches, such as the hare, tiger, crane, and lion. Inside the box are three small incense containers. Two of these are in the shape of butterflies, while the other is a rhomboid box placed between them, and decorated with a peony pattern. The incense box is decorated with several maki-e (decoration with gold and/or silver sprinkled powder) techniques, among them the meticulous okibirame (individual gold flakes placed onto the sticky lacquer surface) and mother-of-pearl inlay. The box is very finely executed, with attention paid to every detail of composition and technique. The style, shape, and motifs recall eighteenth-century incense boxes, some of which were owned by European aristocrats as exotic curiosities, but this box was made in the Meiji period (1868–1912) during a revival of eighteenth-century taste.