Round covered box with decorative floral pattern
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
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Morris Newman Nichols and Myrtle Nichols, Baltimore, Maryland; given to the Walters Art Museum, 1986.
Geographies
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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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
44.667