Box

Object Details

• Provenance

  From 1850

  Private collection, England, from 1850 [1]

  To 2000

  Terence McInerney Fine Arts Ltd., New York, NY, to 2000

  From 2000

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from Terrence McInerney Fine Arts, Ltd. in 2000

  Notes:

  [1] The box has been in a private collection in England since 1850. See Provenance Remark 1, Debra Diamond, September 28, 2000, in the object record.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Terence McInerney Fine Arts, Ltd. (active 1990-2013)

• Origin

  Kerala, India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds

• Type

  Container

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1820s, 1770s

• Name

  McInerney, Terence

• Place

  Kerala, India

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Art, Wood, Flowers

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Containers