Casket
date: label: Date
content: 1654
name: label: Maker
content: Frances Basnet
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A beaded casket with a hinged top and two doors which open to show a series of small drawers. The wooden frame is covered with white satin and beaded with many colors of glass beads, strung on linen thread in a simple looping structure. The doors are lined with green silk and the whole is trimmed with silver braid. The arms of Basnet appear on the left door and the arms of Dand on the right. On the top is a scene of four figures visiting a royal personage, and the remainder is covered with flowers and birds.
place: label: made in
content: Coventry, England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Charles Suydam Cutting
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1947-70-1
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Casket
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: wood, silk, glass beads Technique: wooden casket covered with satin fabric and embroidered with glass beads Label: wooden casket covered with silk satin and embroidered with glass beads
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 23 x 21 x 28.5cm (9 1/16 x 8 1/4 x 11 1/4in.)