Ivory Box
Unknown Chinese, Chinese
collected before 1888
Ivory cylindrical box
Overall: 5 13/16 × 7/8 in. (14.8 × 2.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Captain Worthen Hall and Polly D. Lovewell Hall
13.9.710
Geography
Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Box
Research Area
Asia
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Captain Worthen Hall (1802-1887), Croyden, New Hampshire; Mrs. Mary E. Hall Hubbard [his daughter], Cryodon, New Hampshire; bequeathed to present collection, 1889; catalogued, 1913.
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