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Box of Colors for Illumination & Missal Painting
1850-1860
wood, gold, silver, colors, porcelain
The box contains gold and silver; ten bottles of colors; porcelain dishes; three brushes and two sheets of instructions.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Wilsey Rare Books, Olivebridge, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1988, by purchase.
Exhibitions
| 2024-2025 | If Books Could Kill. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
| 2015-2016 | Henry Walters, Léon Gruel, and the Reinvention of the Medieval Manuscript . |
| 2009 | The Saint John's Bible: A Modern Vision through Medieval Methods. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Geographies
United Kingdom, England, London (Place of Origin)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, 1988
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
1988.29.1
