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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
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.

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

In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.

44.667

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