Box
date: label: date made
content: 1907
notes: label: Description
content: Repousse chased, rectangular box with friction-fit, hinged lid featuring a vignette of peasants gambling in a tavern executed in high relief; bulging sides of box are covered in foliate scrollwork and flowers with perched birds at ends and oval reserves of horned cows grazing at front and back. Underside of flat bottom struck "HOLLAND" in raised serif letters to left of two pseudo-hallmarks, a right-facing lion passant above "2" in hexagon overstruck with key, and two partial marks, one with "N". Box collar has a gothic or Old English "L" in circle, while opposite end of lid is struck with a left-facing Minerva head with "E" in her cap.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Netherlands: Groningen, Groningen
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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.60.1753
label: catalog number
content: 60.1753
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 4 7/8 in x 3 1/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 12.3825 cm x 7.9375 cm