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PHOTO RELEASE

OCTOBER MARKS 5thANNIVERSARY OF PEABODY PLACE MUSEUM

Home to one of the largest collections of 19thcentury Chinese art in the nation

Peabody Place Museum is celebrating its fifth anniversary throughout October. To thank the community for their support in the past years, the Museum will feature a few of the pieces from its permanent collection.

Featured this week is a cloisonné Monkey with a Peach. Sitting with its legs crossed and looking down at the peach in its right hand, we get a glimpse into the artist's interpretation of the quest the monkey would eventually go on to find its immortality. In the cloisonné piece at Peabody Place Museum, the monkey is depicted wearing a red vest with colorful flowers and on his body are the traditional scroll designs of cloisonné.

Peabody Place Museum houses one of the nation's largest collections of 19th century Chinese art. The permanent exhibit at the Museum includes objects created for Chinese nobility during the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911). The collection includes intricately carved jade sculptures, beautifully crafted enamelware pieces and rare objects created from ivory. The Museum has smaller collections of fossils and minerals, contemporary European art glass, Russian lacquer boxes, Judaic art and more. Please call the Museum for details at 523- ARTS.