AN IVORY OBLONG OCTAGONAL BOX AND COVER with tapering sides and shallow domed cover, each end with a dragon-scroll bail handle, carved with shallow-relief panels depicting figures around houses in landscapes reserved on a pierced ground of dense lotus meander, raised on pierced bracket feet (some age cracks, one handle slightly restored) early 19th Century

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AN IVORY OBLONG OCTAGONAL BOX AND COVER with tapering sides and shallow domed cover, each end with a dragon-scroll bail handle, carved with shallow-relief panels depicting figures around houses in landscapes reserved on a pierced ground of dense lotus meander, raised on pierced bracket feet (some age cracks, one handle slightly restored) early 19th Century
26.5cm. long, glass case

Lot Essay

Two outstanding baskets in the Peabody Museum, Salem, are discussed by Carl L. Crossman, op. cit., p.298. The larger, which he identifies as a "tiffin basket" (i.e. for carrying food) has a plain oval escutcheon left blank on the front for a coat-of-arms or monogram. The smaller basket in Salem has its own original box, with the label for "Hangsing, New China Stree no. 1". Another from the collection of the Ryerss Museum, Fairmont Park Commission, Philadelphia, was exhibited, Philadelphians and the China Trade 1784-1844, Catalogue, no.115

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