Pagoda

Pagoda
Pagoda

1900-1950 / Metal / Metalwork / Other / Wood / World Parish
Metal, silver plated
c. 1920s

This silver plate pagoda was a retirement present. It was given by the missionaries of the United Methodist Church in China to the Rev. J.E. Swallow in 1926. Little is known about him; he was one of many hundreds of Methodist missionaries who worked in China in the 19th and 20th centuries.