Traveling Dressing Case
date: label: Date
content: 1875
name: label: Retailer
content: Asprey & Son Co., London, England, 1872 - 1879
label: Maker
content: Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: -1a: case
label: Description
content: -1b: jewelry drawer
label: Description
content: -1c: jewelry drawer cover
label: Description
content: -1d: mirror
label: Description
content: -1e: interior tray with silver handles
label: Description
content: -1f: tray for manicure tools
label: Description
content: -1g: key
label: Description
content: rectangular box, lined with purple silk, fitted with leather document holders, and mirror with gold-leaf foliate border, the upper level with 4 rectangular and 1 central faceted silver-lidded cylindrical cologne jars, 3 silver-lidded glass boxes, 2 silver-lidded glass ink bottles, mother-of-pearl handled sewing implements, tweezers, button hook, pen knife and hole punch or scorer-all in the upper compartment, a secret drawer below fitted with a letter writing slide.
place: label: made in
content: London, England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Danny J. H. Kauffman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1984-133-1-a/c, e/i
objectType: label: Type
content: containers
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: dressing case
label: Type
content: dressing case
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: wood, silk, leather, silver, glass, mother-of-pearl, brass, gold, steel
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 21.3 × 32.4 × 23.3 cm (8 3/8 × 12 3/4 × 9 3/16 in.)