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The Hunt
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About this work
The inside of this shell preserves the earliest, extant figure paintings in Chinese history.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineThe Hunt, 300–100 BCE. China, Warring States period (475–221 BCE) to Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE). Painted clamshell; overall: 7.5 x 9 cm (2 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Homer H. Tielke Jr., in honor of the fortieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Homer H. Tielke Sr., 1957.141
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