Antique Chinese Brass Seal

Item Details

An antique Chinese seal cube in two nesting brass boxes. The seal is a cube with different characters on each of the six sides with four sides having characters in Mandarin and the other two in Manchurian. The seal cube fits inside one brass box which then nests snugly inside the larger brass box. Both brass boxes are marked with previous museum inventory numbers. 1938.0174 A, B & C

Provenance
Collected in the late 19th and early 20th century and donated to a Private Midwestern Institution in 1938
Sold to enhance and preserve the Institution’s mission-relevant Collections

Condition

- good condition.
- museum numbering on both brass boxes

Dimensions

Item #

17COL077-201