Object Details
- Attributed to
- Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Box in form of woman's head with small 18th-century bonnet and black domino mask; decorated in natural colors in white porcelain; eyes set with rose diamonds; hinged cover of Battersea enamel at back of head, decorated with polychrome flower sprays; gilt metal rims with flame mouldings and twisted gilt wire thumb-piece.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Anonymous Donor
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1967-48-24
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ceramics
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- snuffbox
- Type
- snuffbox
- Medium
- porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, brass, diamonds?
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 4.4 × 3.2 cm (1 3/4 × 1 1/4 in.)
- Place
- England
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1967-48-24
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq41a448957-cf54-4001-94ea-815eee63926d
