Guilloche Enamel Match Safe
date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
name: label: Retailer
content: House of Fabergé, 1842 - 1918
label: Maker
content: August Wilhelm Holmström, Finnish, 1829 - 1903
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular, with rounded corners, featuring transluscent pale blue enamel over an engine turned ground, revealing repeating, vertical, wavy lines. The lid's lower edge is banded with pink and yellow gold acanthus leaf border. Lid released by pushing cabochon pink sapphire button at side. Lid hinged on opposite side of sapphire. Striker in recessed gold groove on bottom.
place: label: made in
content: Saint Petersburg, Russia
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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: 1978-146-482
objectType: label: Type
content: containers
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: match safe
label: Type
content: match safe
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: metal, enamel, topaz
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 4.5 x 3.6 x 1cm (1 3/4 x 1 7/16 x 3/8in.)