box
- Museum number
- SLMisc.1058
- Description
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Fragment of tiered box. Decorated with pine tree. Made of porcelain, with underglaze blue.
- Production date
- 1655-1670s
- Curator's comments
- Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s.
Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue:
"1058. Nests of China earthen ware boxes blew & white 3 boxes in each"
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- Notation in Sloane's manuscript catalogue that piece was acquired from Mr van Mildert.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- SLMisc.1058
- Additional IDs
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 1058 (Miscellanies)