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Photo: Paul Macapia
Openwork Box
Photo: Paul Macapia

Openwork Box

Datelate 18th-19th century
Object number33.86.1
Photo CreditPhoto: Paul Macapia
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle World's Fair, Fine Arts Pavilion, Art of the Ancient East, 1962. Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Gift to a City: Masterworks from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection in the Seattle Art Museum, Nov. 3 - 28, 1965. [Only one of 33.86 exhibited.] Published ReferencesHandbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 80 (b&w) (unclear whether this is 33.86.1 or 33.86.2) Seattle Art Museum, Engagement Book, 4/26/59 AAM Meeting Seattle '63, Museum News, April 1963, p.24 Gift to a City, exhibition catalogue. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1965, cat. no. 50 (only one of 33.86) Wills, Geoffrey, Jades of the East, 1972, p. 125, no. 111. Seattle Art Museum, Engagement Book, 1972, no. 12. Long, Frank W., Lapidary Carving, Design and Technique, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1982, p. 5. Watt, James C.Y., Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1989, p. 104. Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA, Magic Art and Order: Jade in Chinese Culture, Dr. Robert Fisher, January, 1990.
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions1 1/2 x 4 1/8 in. (3.81 x 10.48 cm)
MediumNephrite
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