Pair of gilt pewter scroll weights, Late Ming dynasty, China, 17th century. Artist: Unknown

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Pair of gilt pewter scroll weights, Late Ming dynasty, China, 17th century. A pair of pewter scroll weights gilded with red lacquer fixative. The irregularly shaped pewter (one slightly bowed) is decorated in high relief with a man with boy on his shoulder and another standing with arms behind his back. There are also bands of children riding piggy-back playing among leaves, holey rock, and peony, some with masks and one with hobby-horse.

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Photo credit: © The Museum of East Asian Art/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 17th, art, artefact, artifact, asian, century, china, chinese, color, colour, country, dynasty, east, location, ming, museum, object, pewter, scroll, seventeenth, unknown, weight