Box
Object type: Box
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Culture: French, Paris
Artist: Claude-François Thierry
Artist bio: French, apprenticed 1761, master 1775, active until 1793
Artist role: Maker
Artist nationality: French
Date: 1779–80
Medium: Gold
Dimensions: Overall: 1 × 2 5/8 × 2 in. (2.5 × 6.7 × 5.1 cm)
Classification: Metalwork-Gold and Platinum
Credit line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948
Accession year: 1948