in Aesthetic Style with Diagonal Opening
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1875
name: label: Maker
content: Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular, with rounded corners, featuring alternating, applied, diagonal bands of bead and leaf ornament, a horizontal band of bead and flower motifs directly beneath, as well as intersecting horizontal bands of bead and spiral motifs at opposite mid-section. All ornament wraps around box body. Undecorated surfaces are slightly mottled. Hinge located on lower corner so that box opens on the diagonal, seperating the bead, leaf, and flower ornament from the bead and spiral. When opened, an unadorned, interior match container is revealed, also attached at corner hinge, so that it may swing from side to side. Striker attached to one side of interior container.
place: label: made in
content: New York City, New York, USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1978-146-370
objectType: label: Type
content: containers
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: Matchsafe
label: Type
content: Matchsafe
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Silver
label: Dimensions
content: 6.5 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm (2 9/16 x 1 5/16 x 9/16 in. )