3rd-2nd century BCE
8.2 x 5 cm (3 1/4 x 1 15/16 in.)
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Carved sandalwood, the exterior decorated with gold hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), the interior with carved representations embellished with polychromy and gilding
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