Box
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
label: date made
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: Repousse chased, rectangular box with hinged lid featuring three scrolled reserves, the largest at center contains a vignette depicting two amorous couples and two putti in a garden or landscape, while those at sides have a tower or castle and a church with steeple. Bands of scroll-bordered floral reserves form the box sides, those at front and back additionally have a three C-scroll reserve with church at center. Gold washed interior. Bottom underside struck with a "V" and three-pellet motif, a partial sickle, and a goblet with four pellets.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Hanau
setName: label: See more items in
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.60.1775
label: catalog number
content: 60.1775
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Box, Cigarette
label: Object Name
content: box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (interior wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 1 7/8 in x 4 3/8 in; 2.54 cm x 4.7625 cm x 11.1125 cm