Box
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Repousse chased, oval box with friction-fit, hinged lid featuring a large, beaded, circular reserve containing a vignette of an amorous hunter and shepherdess in a pastoral setting; footed bowls of fruit are at sides of reserve and laurel leaves encircle lid edge. A continous pattern of ruffled, diapered and flowered C scrolls covers sides of lid and box. Underside is struck with a crown, lion passant facing right, raised roman letter "S" and raised conjoined letters "WK", all in clipped-corner rectangles. Three cuts along underside edge.
label: Description
content: Four marks are pseudo-hallmarks of an unidentified silversmith in Hanau, Germany.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Hanau
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lucinda de Leftwich Templin, Ph.D., in memory of Ella Rice Templin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.1742
label: catalog number
content: 60.1742
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 2 5/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 2.54 cm x 6.6675 cm x 9.8425 cm