Lime Box with Four-Tiered Lid
1800-1899
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Lime Box with Four-Tiered Lid
1800-1899
Physical Qualities
Repousse silver, 4.3 H × 7.6 Diam. cm. (1 11/16 × 3 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.2014.45
Round box with a four-tiered lid, a trident in the uppermost; the bottom decorated with an outer band containing a variation on the "Eight Precious Things" (wheel, umbrella, paired fish, shell, fan, vase, knot, bell) and a spiral at the center.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore; Claribel or Etta Cone, probably purchased, in India or China in 1907 on Cone Family trip
