
- Casket for pan
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Casket for pan
- Object:
Casket for pan (pandan)
- Date:
c. 1650-1700 (made)
- Materials and Techniques:
nephrite jade
- Credit Line:
Wells Bequest
- Museum number:
1601-1882
- Gallery location:
In Storage
Physical description
The pale green nephrite box and cover are in the shape of a leaf from the piper betel tree. The sides are decorated with single flower heads on a scrolling line, all in low relief. The cover has a single flowering plant with a very long, slender, straight stem from which flowers of different kinds radiate out to cover the convex surface.
Date
c. 1650-1700 (made)
Materials and Techniques
nephrite jade
Dimensions
Height: 3.3 cm minus lid, Height: 5.5 cm with lid, Length: 13 cm
Object history note
Wells Bequest.
Descriptive line
Pale green nephrite jade, Mughal, second half of 17th century
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
p. 228, cat. no. 1153
The art of India and Pakistan, a commemorative catalogue of the exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1947-8. Edited by Sir Leigh Ashton. London: Faber and Faber, [1950]
Materials
Nephrite
Subjects depicted
Flowers; Box
Categories
Containers; Hardstone
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection