BOX

Creator(s): Unknown

On view in: Second Floor Hallway

About this object

The background is in pink with panels painted in full colors and with rococo frames with gilt scrolls in relief. On the cover, is an Italianate landscape with a river, on the right with shepherds, sheep and a cow, a horseman in the middle ground riding in the direction of a large town in the middle distance and mountains in the far distance. On the four sides are white panels, each with a bouquet of flowers. The bottom is also in pink with gilt raised scrolls and a white panel with flowers. The interior is in white enamel. The ormolu hinge is tooled with wavy lines.

Object name:

BOX

Made from:

Enamel on copper -- gilt copper

Made in:

ENGLAND: South Staffordshire, Bilston or Wednesbury

Date made:

ca. 1780

Size:

4 × 11.6 × 5.4 cm (1 9/16 × 4 9/16 × 2 1/8 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

15.175

Class:

ENAMEL

Signature marks:

LABEL At the bottom a rectangular paper sticker reading "next to bottom shelf"

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973