Tsamba Box
51-4-76A
From: Tibet
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 51-4-76A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tibetan |
| Provenience | Tibet |
| Date Made | 15th Century - 1935 |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Wood | Copper | Varnish |
| Technique | Varnished |
| Iconography | Flowers |
| Description | One of a nested set of Tsamba boxes. For holding barley flour (Tsamba), salt and condiments. Wood with floral patterns in black on lustrous copper varnish. This principal vessel has a has low conical foot, sub-globular body, groove below short inset neck with rather wide mouth. Fitting into the neck is a box like vessel. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Robert R. Service, 1951 |
| Other Number | 104 - Other Number |
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