Casket
date: label: Date
content: first half 16th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Casket-shaped box, fitted with iron lock, made of tooled leather over wood; surface design showing Renaissance style masks, and foliated scrolls with bird-like animals, decorated with large curves. Inside lining of brown silk taffeta with embroidery in green and brown silk showing trees, leaves, and architecture.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
setName: label: See more items in
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. Max Farrand
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1947-16-4-a
objectType: label: Type
content: containers
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Casket
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Tooled leather over wood, metal, silk (interior)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 12.5 x 9.5 x 25cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/4 x 9 13/16in.)