Prison Cell Entrance
date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Oblong, curved vertical sides, featuring woven and applied strips of cardboard, painted and varnished to resemble a bricked prison cell entrance. Rectangular, recessed doorway has grid of fine threads, simulating cell bars, black cornice-like band over door, number 43 painted in yellow at left of doorway; lower third of wall area woven and painted green, bordered above and below with black bands, upper 2/3 of wall area woven and painted red. Slip-top cover (upper third of box) when closed meets black overdoor band, lid may also be removed entirely. Striker of sandpaper on box bottom.
place: label: made in
content: probably Europe
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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 Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1978-146-520
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: Painted and varnished cardboard, thread, sandpaper
label: Dimensions
content: 6.6 x 3.8 x 1.7 cm (2 5/8 x 1 1/2 x 11/16 in. )