Cigarette Case
Object Details
- Producer
- Cartier, French, founded 1847
- Description
- Cigarette case featuring semi-transparent rectangular agate panels on the front and back surrounded by black enamel, accented on the corners and sides by carved coral segments with cabochon emeralds, the back applied with black enamel stripes around an agate panel, two sides composed of carved onyx segments, with diamond-set thumbpiece
- Credit Line
- Lent by Private Collection
- ca. 1927
- Accession Number
- 13.2016.58
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- containers
- Exhibitions
- Cigarette Case
- Medium
- Agate, black enamel, carved coral, cabochon emeralds, carved onyx, diamonds, gold
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 9 × 5.6 × 1.5 cm (3 9/16 × 2 3/16 × 9/16 in.)
- made in
- Paris, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Exhibitions Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_13.2016.58
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq48b9f9709-e23e-44f0-84a1-f3198298c8df
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