Box
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular box with hinged cover domed from front to back. Ring bail handle on top of cover and hasp fastener, with staple broken off. Box is painted black with floral decoration on front and ends of vermillion fruit-like flowers, with white and alizarin markings, and with serrated green leaves and leaf-fronds. Cover is decorated on front and ends with a border of lapped and recumbent "S"s in yellow and similar band with dots frames the top. Spiral arrangement of leaf-fronds in yellow around handle.
place: label: made in
content: New York, USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Henry du Pont
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1954-27-1
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Box
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Tôle (painted tin)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 16 x 25.5 x 12.5 cm (6 5/16 x 10 1/16 x 4 15/16 in.)