Covered Box on Stand
date: label: Date
content: 1736–1795
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Circular red lacquer box with short circular foot and fitted circular lid, sitting on carved wooden stand; foot carved with a fret or 'lei-wen" pattern. Side of box carved with peony-like flowers interspersed with beribboned Buddhist-taoist symbols set among deeply carved buds and scrolls. Outside edge of lid carved with Eight Buddhist Emblems of Happy Augury interspersed among flowers and scrolls. Top of lid with carved landscape framed by a band of bud-like figures adjacent to inner band of interlocking geometric figures and "shou" characters.
place: label: made in
content: China
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Mary Hearn Greims
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1927-5-27-a/d
objectType: label: Type
content: containers
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Covered Box on Stand
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Carved lacquer, wood, silk
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 24 x 34 cm (9 7/16 x 13 3/8 in.)