Object details
Accession number
M11n2.a-b
Primary Creator
Indian, Lucknow
Full title
Box
Creation Date
late 19th century
Provenance
Possibly acquired by Isabella Stewart Gardner in Lucknow, India in March 1884.
Dimensions
10 x 11.5 cm (3 15/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Display Media
Silver, partly gilded
Web Commentary
This elegantly lobed box in fine repoussé work may have been acquired by Mrs. Gardner in Lucknow, a city known for the production of fine silver, often enameled, in the nineteenth century. It may have been made as a betel box (pandam) for the tourist market.
Permanent Gallery Location
Macknight Room
Bibliography
Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), p. 463, fig. 9.
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