Wafer Seal Case with Tiger Hunt

1876–1877

Medium: Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer over tin layer on pasteboard
Dimensions: 1.9 × 3.1 × 15.7 cm (3/4 × 1 1/4 × 6 3/16 in.)
Genre: Boxes
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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Lidded box with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format with bouquets flanking a central panel, in which a tiger attacks men riding on elephants.

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