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, clipped-corner, rectangular case with snap-closure, hinged lid featuring an imitation green agate border around an inset oval painting of a young couple in eighteenth-century dress in the woods, the man seated on a log at right plays a pipe or flute while the woman dances; case sides and underside are engraved with bands of overlapping leaves and a large circular design. Notched tab at front center of lid. Gold washed interior. Outside front of box collar is struck incuse "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.60.2010
label: catalog number
content: 60.2010
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 1/8 in x 2 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 5.3975 cm x 7.3025 cm