Jewelry Box
date: label: date made
content: 1850-1900
notes: label: Description
content: Silver-gilt and pietra dura mounted rectangular lidded box on four, angled, scroll-bracketed shell feet. Each of the five stone intarsia panels features a spray of different flowers within a black ground and rests inside a beaded-border frame. Key lock fitted at front center; five-knuckle hinge along back. Padded interiors of lid and box are lined in a pink or peach brocade trimmed with an ivory-colored cord woven with metallic gold thread. Underside of box is open and bottom cushion is covered in red velvet; two wires span depth to keep it from falling out. Underside of box frame is struck "GUTTIN" and "232", both in incuse serif letters.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
label: place made
content: Europe
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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.61.0307
label: catalog number
content: 61.0307
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box, jewelry
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (frame; feet material)
label: Physical Description
content: stone (panels material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (interior and exterior fabric material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper card (linings material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 5 3/4 in x 4 in; 9.525 cm x 14.605 cm x 10.16 cm