Box
c. 1600 - c. 1699
Medium
lacquer (coating)
Dimensions
8.7; 8.7; 2.5
About this artwork
…; from the widow of Prof. Dr Ernst Grosse (1862-1927), Freiburg im Breisgau, DM 750, together with AK-MAK-834, AK-MAK-585 and AK-MAK-588 to Herman Karel Westendorp (1868-1941), Amsterdam, 1930;{Note RMA}…; his widow Betsy Westendorp-Osieck (1880-1968), Amsterdam, by whom bequeathed to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1968;{note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972
About the Artist
anonymous
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...