Casket
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular, with four palmette bracket feet. Hinged cover with high canted sides and flat top. Gold, decorated in translucent red, green and blue, and opaque white champleve enamel. On cover, lion couchant and floral motifs. On sides small circular medallions with white fan-tail pigeons on red ground, and leaf motifs. On base, formal floral design.
label: Description
content: It has an outer case or box with concave sides and domed cover, covered with garnet-colored silk embroidered in yellow, blue, black and cream, with small pieces of mirror applied. Lined with white crepe de Chine.
place: label: made in
content: India
label: distributed in
content: New York, New York, USA
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 Anonymous Donor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1967-48-21-a/c
objectType: label: Type
content: enamels
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Casket
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Enamel, metal, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 3 x 2.8 x 2.4 cm (1 3/16 x 1 1/8 x 15/16 in.)