Biscuit Box
date: label: date used
content: ca 1870-1873
notes: label: Description
content: Mechanical triple folding biscuit box consisting of three, repousse chased, shell-shape, hinged sides that open from the top to reveal a gilded interior fitted with three, fanlike, piercework, hinged covers that fold down and secure closed using the spring retainers mounted on their fronts. Frame is formed from three, fasces-pattern arches on triple-pad feet to which the hinge mechanisms, each topped by a fleur-de-lis finial, are attached. Cast, three-scroll top handle and smaller, triangular, broken-scroll side handles. Top of one foot struck incuse "13". No other marks. One of two biscuit boxes, DL*304621.0001-.0002.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
label: place used
content: United States: Missouri
label: place used
content: United States: Kansas
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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 Mr. and Mrs. Louis S. Rothschild
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.304621.0001
label: catalog number
content: 304621.0001
label: accession number
content: 304621
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box, biscuit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (gilt interior material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/8 in x 8 1/2 in; 23.8125 cm x 21.59 cm