Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: late 19th or early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular case with rounded, snap-closure, hinged lid featuring a polychrome enamel vignette of five gentlemen or cavaliers in brightly-colored clothing gathered around a white cloth-covered table with wine as they listen to one of their group playing a lute; scene set under a flowering tree outside a brick building with balustrade and landscape to right. Flat bottom is elaborately engraved with monogram "WJC(?)". Push-button catch. Gold washed interior. Enamel is signed at lower left "TC(?)" and at lower right "d'ap C. Meissonier fils", both in black. No other marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
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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.60.2042
label: catalog number
content: 60.2042
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: 7/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 2.2225 cm x 6.985 cm x 8.89 cm