Snuff Box
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1750
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Irregularly octagonal, with hinged cover; blonde tortoiseshell, with molded edges and raised panel on cover; decorated in gold piqué work; on cover, within a double border of strapwork and scrolled cartouches filled with diaper pattern in piqué pint, figures of Diana with hound, Venus with Cupid and two seated figures with staffs, in piqué posé; on bottom , in same technique, Cupid beneath a tree, with bow and quiver, holding a heart, a mask at his feet; details of flowers, birds and insects in piqué point; above, traces of a scroll, probably originally with inscription.
place: label: made in
content: France
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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: 1967-48-3
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, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 1.4 x 7.3 x 5.5 cm (9/16 x 2 7/8 x 2 3/16 in.)