Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: post 1891
label: date made
content: 1872 - 1933
notes: label: Description
content: Silver-gilt or vermeil and polychrome enamel, serpentine-sided, rectangular case with snap-closure, hinged lid featuring an imitation lapis border around an inset painting of a nude woman or odalisque with Cupid, his arrows on bed at left, reclining in front of a window with perched bird, small dog and vase of roses; case sides and underside are engraved with bands of overlapping leaves and a larger pointed oval design. Curved tab at front center of lid. Gold washed interior. Outside front of box collar is struck incuse "800" and "ITALY" in sans serif letters and scratched with two sets of numbers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy
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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.60.2009
label: catalog number
content: 60.2009
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: 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in x 3 in; 1.27 cm x 5.715 cm x 7.62 cm