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Sino-Portuguese Jesuit Lectern

Made By Maker Unknown
Made By Portuguese settlement in Macau, China
Creation placeSoutheast China
Datelate 16th-early 17th century
Dimensions9 × 7 1/2 × 5 3/8 in. (22.9 × 19.1 × 13.7 cm)
Classification(s)
  • DEC ARTS
Credit LineMuseum purchase, Joseph O. Eaton Fund
Terms
  • book
  • stand
  • flowers
  • sun
Object numberM.2024.12.1
Descriptionred-dish brown, decorated with gold, consisting of two hinged wooden boards and bracket shaped feet
On View
Not on view
Reliquary in the form of a book
Maker Unknown
late 16th-early 17th century
Pendant cross
Anonymous
15th-16th century
Saba
Arthur Gibbons
1982