Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Pouch shape, with two hinged covers and two compartments; plaques of heliotrope held in a frame of gold carved with scrolls, leaves and pinecone motifs; thumb-piece of foliate scrolls set with small diamonds, rubies, and emeralds; sides of box lined with gold.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Anonymous Donor
- ca. 1750
- Accession Number
- 1967-48-9
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- containers
- Decorative Arts
- Snuff box
- Medium
- Carved bloodstone, chased and engraved gold, cut diamonds, rubies, emeralds
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 6 x 4 x 3 cm (2 3/8 x 1 9/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
- made in
- possibly Germany
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1967-48-9
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4488e152b-7b94-4265-8c34-6190eef5c677
