Paisley Decoration
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1880
name: label: Maker
content: Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Oblong, with rounded sides and corners, featuring silver, winding, flowered tendrils attached to larger, central, paisley motif, center of flower forms punctuated with copper, all on darker steely-gray ground; reverse features same decoration. Lid, hinged on side, has protruding, rounded lip running along its lower edge; initials, possibly YM, engraved on lid top. Small, oval shaped striker on bottom.
place: label: made in
content: New York, 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 Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1982-23-56
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, copper, niello
label: Dimensions
content: 6.5 x 3.4 x 1.5 cm (2 9/16 x 1 5/16 x 9/16 in. )