Round covered box
Chinese
Cold-painted ceramic funerary ware simulating a painted lacquer box; rounded, bowl-like box with circular footring and domed cover with raised circular ring on top; dark gray earthenware with decoration of geometric cloud-scroll designs painted in unfired polychrome pigments, including white, off-white, ochre, green, blue, orange, and red; interior of container and lid covered with cold-painted red pigment. One of a pair with 2006.170.173.A-B.
Cold-painted funerary ware: dark gray earthenware with decoration cold-painted in variegated pigments
Han dynasty, Western Han period, 206 BCE-9 CE