Music Box
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular tortoise shell box (a) with hinged back, containing key (b). Oval, hinged and parcel-gilt medallion on top, engraved with flying crane and flowers. Catch on front of box opens the medallion and releases a small feather-covered bird on a post. The automaton beats its wings, opens and closes its beak and pivots on a vertical axis while twittering. Beneath it, a cut-out medallion with scrolls.
place: label: made in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1958-42-1-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: containers
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: box
label: Type
content: box
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Tortoiseshell, silver gilt, feathers
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 3.5 x 9.5 x 6.6 cm (1 3/8 x 3 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.)