Champa, 9th-12th century. The boxes and covers each shaped like a closed lotus bud, executed in fine repoussé, the smaller box with a repoussé floral mark to the circular base.
Condition: Good condition commensurate with age, with extensive traces of age and wear, few miniscule losses, the smaller box with some verdigris here and there, the larger with a fine malachite-green patina throughout, and soil encrustations. Provenance: Ex-Collection of The Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above.
Weight: 24.7 g (total) Dimensions: Height 5.5 cm and 3.8 cm, Diameter 3.8 and 2.9
Published: The Zelnik Istvan Southeast Asian Gold Museum, page 197, Budapest 2013 (the smaller box, erroneously described as from Cambodia, Angkor period). Literature comparison: A similar piece is in the National Museum of Cambodia, inventory number Ga.5734. A similar lotus-form medicine box in gold is published in Art of Champa, Arts of Southeast Asia, page 39, Issue 4, 2020.