Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: post 1891
notes: label: Description
content: Slim, rectangular case with identical, polychrome painted and basse-taille enamel decoration on the snap-closure, hinged lid and bottom, consisting of an oval reserve framed by a translucent orange, clipped-corner, concave-sided rectangle and opaque dark blue triangles; reserve on lid features a pastoral scene of a man seated on the ground and admiring a half-clothed woman asleep at his feet, while that on bottom has an opaque white border and additional orange basse-taille enamel. Reverse-cyma tab at front center of lid. Gold washed interior. Outside front of box collar is struck "[G]ERMAN[Y]".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
setName: label: See more items in
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.60.2008
label: catalog number
content: 60.2008
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: case, cigarette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (interior wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 2 in x 3 1/8 in; .9525 cm x 5.08 cm x 7.9375 cm