Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Oblong box (a) with rounded ends, reinforced on one side. Slip-over cover (b), open on one end. Both box and cover lacquered green; sides of box and bottom of cover painted with gold; reinforced part of box and top and sides of cover decorared with polychrome flowers, birds, and butterflies.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1943-1-1-a,b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Decorative Arts
- Pencil box
- Medium
- papier mache, paint, gilding
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 21.5 x 4 x 3.5 cm (8 7/16 x 1 9/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
- made in
- Iran
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1943-1-1-a_b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4cfcd87e9-0c0a-4f9e-bf68-04ab4650364d
