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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