Table screen with woman playing touhu

Table screen with woman playing touhu

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

An example of late seventeenth-century Chinese pewter work, this screen is distinguished by the use of two-tone pictorial decoration. On the front, a woman plays the game touhu, in which arrows are shot into a narrow-necked vase. On the back of the screen is a quote from a Tang-dynasty poem by Shen Quanqi (ca. 650–729).

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.