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Round covered box with decorative floral pattern

Chinese (Artist)
19th century (Ch'ing)
Cloisonne enamels

A round covered box with a foot rim. Interior and base covered in a medium blue enamel. A deorative floral pattern featuring peonies and arabesques is rendered in pink, green, white, yellow, light blue and red against a dark blue ground. The weight of the object is quite heavy.

Provenance
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Morris Newman Nichols and Myrtle Nichols, Baltimore, Maryland; given to the Walters Art Museum, 1986.

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China (Place of Origin)

Credit Line

Gift of Norris Newman Nichols and Myrtle Nichols, 1986

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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44.667

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600 N. Charles St.
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