Box
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular box with hinged cover domed from front to back. Ring bail handle on cover, and hinged harp fastening. Painted black with horizontal band of dull gray and upper half of body on front and two ends only. On the front of band and extending below are sprays of acorns and leaves; on each end a small branch of cherries. Colors are vermillion red, yellow, and green, with black lines. Cover has two double sprays of yellow fond-type leaves, with some red, and yellow lines across ends. A continuous border of repeated 3-leaf motif in yellow extends across ends and front.
place: label: made in
content: 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: Giff of Mrs. Henry B. duPont
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1954-26-1
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Box
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Tôle (painted tin)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 12 x 21 x 9 cm (4 3/4 x 8 1/4 x 3 9/16 in.)