home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Five Millennia of Chinese…es of a Spritual Journey
/
Five Millennia of Chinese Art: Images of a Spritual Journey.iso
/
museum
/
07
/
071.txt
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-11-29
|
560b
|
23 lines
Carved Olive-stone Boat
Ch'en Chu-chang
Ch'ien-lung period (A.D.
1736-1795)
Ch'ing Dynasty
Height: 1.6cm
Length: 3.4cm
This tiny boat carved
from an olive stone is
fully equipped with a
covered deck and moveable
windows carved in open-
work. The interior has
chairs, dishes on a table
and eight figures
representing the characters
from Su Tung-po's "Ode on
the Red Cliff." On the
underside, in minute characters,
is carved the entire ode,
together with the date
(A.D. 1737) and the artist's
name.