Box
maker
Unknown
Datelate 19th century
Place MadeLucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, South Asia
MediumSilver, partly gilded
Dimensions10 x 11.5 cm (3 15/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsBoxes
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberM11n2.a-b
eMuseum ID725770
EmbARK ObjectID11506
Previous Number134
TMS Source ID702
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryThis elegantly lobed box in fine repoussé work may have been acquired by Mrs. Gardner in Lucknow, a city known for the production of fine silver, often enameled, in the nineteenth century. It may have been made as a betel box (pandam) for the tourist market.
BibliographyNotesAlan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), p. 463, fig. 9.
ProvenanceNotesPossibly acquired by Isabella Stewart Gardner in Lucknow, India in March 1884.
