Box
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: rectangular wooden box, on oiutside covered with gold-tooled leather; sprigs of flowers on sides and surrounding raised central panel of cover, which in center bears coat-of-arms flanked by two quatrefoils, and in corners diapered scrolled cartouches - coat-of-arms: tierced in fess, 1] an eagle displayed, 2] a winged dragon, 3] three mullets on bend - surmouted by cardinal's hat - brass escutcheon, hasp, and two bail handles - inside lined with red undrressed leather.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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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 Anonymous Donor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1953-24-2
objectType: label: Type
content: containers
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Box
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: wood, tooled leather, gilded brass
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 13.5 x 46.5 x 28.3 cm (5 5/16 x 18 5/16 x 11 1/8 in.)