Box with Camellias | Yale University Art Gallery

16th century

Medium: Carved red lacquer
Dimensions: 1 1/8 × 2 1/8 in. (2.9 × 5.4 cm)
other: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of F. Wells Williams, B.A. 1879
Accession Number: 1928.225a-b
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Samuel Wells Williams (1812–1884) Collection; bequest of Frederick Wells Williams (1857–1928) in 1928; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 265, no. 479, ill.

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