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Betel Nut Box with Four-Tiered Lid

1800-1899

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Betel Nut Box with Four-Tiered Lid

Betel Nut Box with Four-Tiered Lid

1800-1899

Physical Qualities Repousse silver, coral, 6.7 H × 13.5 Diam. cm. (2 5/8 × 5 5/16 in.)
Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number 1950.2014.47
The round box top is tiered with decoration organized into four ascending bands with 8 motifs in the outer band including a double-bladed flaying knife, a flame, a pair of interlocked circles, a pair of lozenges, a cloud or lingzhi fungus, and a flower; the motifs of the inner bands unidentifiable; a coral finial in the uppermost tier.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore; Claribel or Etta Cone, probably purchased, in India or China n 1907 on Cone Family trip
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