ÉTUI
Creator(s): Unknown
On view in: Second Floor Hallway
About this object
The background is in dark blue enamel with a lattice and fleurettes in raised white enamel. On each section is a cartouche painted in colors and with a frame in raised gilt scrolls. On the lower half a shepherd carrying his crook and two sheep in a landscape, and a shepherdess reading to a shepherd seated beside her on a bank with sheep and trees in the background. On the upper half the cartouches are painted with flowers on a white ground. On the cover is a spray of leaves and flowers in gilt, raised, against a dark blue ground. Ormolu mounts are finely chased. On the inside are four fittings, two other are missing.
- Object name:
- ÉTUI
- Made from:
- Enamel on copper -- gilt copper
- Made in:
- ENGLAND: South Staffordshire, Bilston or Wednesbury
- Date made:
- ca. 1770
- Size:
- 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 15.165
- Class:
- ENAMEL
- Signature marks:
- LABEL At the bottom a round paper label with zig-zag edges and the number "4" in the center
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973