BOX
Creator(s): Unknown
On view in: Second Floor Hallway
About this object
The background is white. On the cover is a picture in colors of a young couple in a garden looking at a volume of music, and a column to the left. The scenes is framed with gilt rococo scrolls. The sides are corrugated and painted with details of gold outlining each indentation, and on each side a cluster of flowers in the center in colors. On the bottom another cluster of flowers. The hinge has a double band with a pattern of indentations in groups of six continued along all sides.
- Object name:
- BOX
- Made from:
- Enamel on copper -- gilt copper
- Made in:
- ENGLAND: South Staffordshire, Bilston or Wednesbury
- Date made:
- ca. 1780
- Size:
- 3 × 7.9 × 6 cm (1 3/16 × 3 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 15.160
- Class:
- ENAMEL
- Signature marks:
- LABEL At the bottom a round paper lable with zig-zag edges with the number "12" in the center
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973