Box inlaid with potted peony flowers
Item
- Title
- Box inlaid with potted peony flowers
- Description
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The sides and lid of the box are decorated with a lotus design created using mother of pearl inlay. On the front panel and the lid the flowers are joined to a small tortoiseshell flowerpot by a stem made of twisted copper wire.
Auspicious symbols adorn the side of the lid.
Colour: Brown - Subject
- Lotus
- Type
- Elise, Kor_load
- Creator
- Unknown nineteenth century
- Date
- 1800-1850 (made)
- Medium
- Wood, Mother of Pearl, Lacquer, Copper, Turtle Shell
- Format
- Height: 42 cm, Width: 44.8 cm, Depth: 23.5 cm
- Spatial Coverage
- Korea
- Rights
- V&A
- Relation
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Art Crafts
- Rights Holder
- V&A
- Item sets
- Art Crafts
- Site pages
- Art Crafts
