Shell-form, with hinged top carved at the rear, the center with interlaced strapwork pseudo armorial device, the frieze carved with flowers in high relief, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
6¹⁄₂ in. (16.5 cm.) high, 13 in. (33 cm.) wide, 11¹⁄₂ in. (29.5 cm.) deep

Supplied by Parish-Hadley, New York to Ann and Gordon Getty, 1975.

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Closely related shell-form boxes, attributed to the Moxos or Chiquitos regions of Bolivia and dated 1770-1790, are in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (accession numbers M.2007.30 and M.2009.04, and both are currently included in the exhibition, Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 12, 2022 - October 30, 2022).