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Storage Trunk Decorated with Phoenixes and Dragons, and Flowers of the Seasons

1849

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Storage Trunk Decorated with Phoenixes and Dragons, and Flowers of the Seasons

1849

Physical Qualities Leather, red lacquer with low-relief gold and black decoration, metal alloy, 11 13/16 × 29 5/16 × 18 11/16 in. (30 × 74.5 × 47.5 cm.)
Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number 1950.2014.54
From left to right along front edge of lid, plum, chrysanthemum, lotus and peony flowers.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore; Claribel or Etta Cone, probably purchased, in China or Japan in 1907 on Cone Family trip

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