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Lime Box with Peacock on Lid

Hindu, 1700-1899

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Lime Box with Peacock on Lid

Hindu, 1700-1899

Physical Qualities Metal alloy, 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm.) H
Credit Line Lockwood de Forest Collection
Object Number 1922.2.5
The peacock, which exists in the wild in India, is the country's national bird.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1922; American Art Galleries, New York; Lockwood de Forest purchased in India, probably 1914
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "90 Years of Asian Accessions: 1920-1940," (Lockwood de Forest, Julius Levy, Francis Burns Harvey, Mary Frick Jacobs, William H. Whitridge), July 2004-January 2005.
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Ornamental Art of India," January 30-May 18, 2008.
Catalogue of the Rare and Valuable Examples of East Indian Persian and Syro-Damascan Art and Curios forming the private collection of the widely known artist and connoisseur Lockwood De Forest, Esq. of New York City, NY: American Art Association, 1922, no. 16.

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