Matchbox
date: label: date made
content: 1896 - 1914
label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Silver-gilt or vermeil and cloisonne enamel, rectangular box featuring symmetrical, twisted wirework designs in opaque white and translucent blue, green, red and purple, including two, large, outward-facing C scrolls on the friction-fit, hinged lid and paired S scrolls forming heart-shaped motifs on all four sides of box. Semicircular tab at front center of lid to open. Inside lid is struck with "ИЗ" ("IZ") in raised Cyrillic letters in a rectangle next to a small, circular, intaglio kokoshnik or assay mark containing a left-facing profile of a woman in headwrap and "ИЛ" ("IL") at right. Bottom underside has same maker's mark and a larger, horizontal oval, intaglio, left-facing kokoshnik or assay mark with "84" at left.
label: Description
content: Maker is Ivan Zakharov (Иван Захаров), Moscow, active c. 1856-1896. Assayer is Ivan Sergeyevich Lebedkin (Иван Сергеевич Лебедкин), Moscow, 1898-1914.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Russia: Moskva, Moscow
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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.60.1858
label: catalog number
content: 60.1858
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: matchbox
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (gilt finish material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 1.905 cm x 6.0325 cm x 3.4925 cm