Cleveland Museum of Art
The Kill
- Date
- 300–100 BCE
- Medium
- Painted clamshell
- Culture
- China, Warring States period (475–221 BCE) to Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The inside of this shell preserves the earliest, extant figure paintings in Chinese history. The marine clam species to which this shell belongs is exclusive to the western Pacific Ocean near China, Japan, the Philippines, and the East Indies.
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