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Description Paragons of filial piety, Chinese painted artwork on a lacquered basketwork box. It was excavated from an Eastern Han tomb of what was the Chinese Lelang Commandery in what is now North Korea. Each of the figures are about 5 cm tall. It is now located at the National Museum of Seoul. The photograph is black-and-white, so the various lacquer-based colors of paint do not show.
Date 1st or 2nd century AD
Source Scanned from the Horizon Book of the Arts of China (1969)
Author Anonymous Chinese artist
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