Patch box mounted with miniatures
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785
name: label: Artist
content: John Miers, English, active 1760 – 1810
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontally oriented ovoid form with gold border surround; on lid covered with brown hair, a central circular panel with painted silhouette of woman in profile, facing left. Two additional silhouettes on inner cover and on verso of box, each on a central oval panel of dark blond hair.
place: label: made in
content: England
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: Gift of Ralph V. Sollitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1976-27-37
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: Cut ivory, raised and chased gold, gilt-metal, hair, velvet, paint
label: Dimensions
content: Overall: 2.2 x 10 x 4.3 cm (7/8 x 3 15/16 x 1 11/16 in.)