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Openwork Box
Openwork Box

Openwork Box

Datelate 18th-19th century
Object number33.86.2
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle World's Fair, Fine Arts Pavilion, Art of Ancient East, 1962. Palm Springs, California, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Magic, Art and Order: Jade in Chinese Culture, Nov. 1989 - May 1990.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, 4/26/1959 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, Jade 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 in. (3.81 cm) Diam.: 4 1/8 in.
MediumNephrite
Photo: Paul Macapia
late 18th-19th century
Object number: 33.86.1
Openwork Box
1760-1812
Object number: 33.68
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
19th century
Object number: 33.1383.2
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
19th century
Object number: 33.1383.1
Trifoil-shaped box
late 18th century
Object number: 33.1376
Quail box
1736 - 95
Object number: 33.71.1
Quail box
1736 - 95
Object number: 33.71.2
Covered box in the shape of a fan
18th century
Object number: 33.1364
Carved box
first half 19th century
Object number: 37.65.1
Carved box
first half 19th century
Object number: 37.65.2
Interlocking stem box
1736-1795
Object number: 33.1378
Girdle box
mid 17th-early 20th century
Object number: 33.66