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BLOODSTONE BOX

Creator(s): Unknown (Jeweler)

On view in: Marjorie Post's Bedroom


About this object

This box is composed of six plain slabs of bloodstone mounted in gold and framed with chased scrolls.

The box is composed of six plain slabs of bloodstone mounted in gold. The mounting is seen from the sides only and not from the top or bottom. Each side is framed with chased scrolls. The upper and bottom edges are in wavy ribbed lines.

Object name:
BLOODSTONE BOX
Made from:
Bloodstone -- gold
Made in:
Dresden, Germany
Date made:
c. 1760
Size:
2.2 × 5.4 × 4 cm (7/8 × 2 1/8 × 1 9/16 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
11.141
Class:
GOLD
Signature marks:
MARK: Oval mark with weevil struck twice [On inside of box] (French import mark of the 2nd half of the 19th century)
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973