"Feu"
date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular container, contoured sides, and slide-off lid with carved decoration, featuring central reserve inscribed "Feu" in black pigment, beneath which is a large cloud formation. Three lighting bolt-like arrows radiate outward from cloud mass at all four corners. Background has fine, engraved horizontal lines and all is framed by a serrated or leaf surround. Small, scalloped shell on lid at right serves as thumb catch. Surface of box bottom carved with fine cross-hatch marks for striker.
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 Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1978-146-314
objectType: label: Type
content: containers
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: Matchsafe
label: Type
content: Matchsafe
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ivory, pigment
label: Dimensions
content: 4.4 x 8 x .17 cm (1 3/4 x 3 1/8 x 1/16 in. )