BOX
Creator(s): Leopold Boilly (Style of)
Currently in storage
About this object
The round box has a detachable cover. The cover has an elaborate picture in colors of a group of eight people, including a cardinal, a lawyer, and one old woman each taking snuff with various gestures. They all have exaggerated noses. The rest of the box is black paper mache.
- Object name:
- BOX
- Made from:
- Papier-mâché -- lacquer
- Made in:
- Wolfenbuttel, Germany
- Date made:
- ca. 1820
- Size:
- 1.9 x 9.5 cm (3/4 x 3 3/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 35.5.1-2
- Class:
- LACQUER
- Signature marks:
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973