Case with three small bottles
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1770
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Shaped box of leather with sloping cover hinged at back containing three cut-glass scent bottles with silver tops (two have glass stoppers and one cork with silver ring). The decoration on the leather is of the type known as Vernis Martin and shows on the front an elopement scene; on the sides, trophies; and on the back, a chateau on a river. The box is lined with green velvet.
place: label: Place
content: France
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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. J. Insely Blair
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1942-81-1-a/d
objectType: label: Type
content: containers
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Case with three small bottles
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Leather, painted and varnished; green velvet; glass; silver; cork
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 7 x 8 x 12 cm (2 3/4 x 3 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.)