Cleveland Museum of Art
The Hunt
- 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. A four-horse chariot and a two-horse chariot are both depicted in this hunting scene.
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