Playing Card Box Lid

16585H

From: India

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 16585H
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Indian | Hindu
Provenience India
Date Made 19th Century - 1893
Section Asian
Materials Wood | Lacquer | Paint
Technique Lacquered | Painted
Iconography Ganesha | Attendants | Trishula
Description

Lacquered or painted wooden sliding lid for box for holding playing cards. Interior in red. Top side painted with scene of Ganesha on throne surrounded by four standing female attendants.

Credit Line Purchased from / at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

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