BOX
Creator(s): Robert Dennison (Silversmith)
On view in: Marjorie Post's Bedroom
About this object
The cover of the box is set with a seven sided flat piece of bloodstone with beveled edges. The silver mount follows the shape, the frame for the cover being carved in the silver with stylized foliage. The bottom in silver has the same shape but curves downward. Set in the bottom is an oval medallion engraved with sprays of flowers, the initials IP and the date 1771. The interior is gilt.
- Object name:
- BOX
- Made from:
- Bloodstone -- silver -- silver gilt
- Made in:
- London, England
- Date made:
- ca. 1771
- Size:
- 3 × 7.2 × 5.7 cm (1 3/16 × 2 7/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 12.207
- Class:
- SILVER
- Signature marks:
- MARK; MONOGRAM; DATE interior: RD set in a shield (mark of Robert Dennnison a London silversmith, a buckle maker, Mark first introduced in 1767); on the bottom engraved: IP, 1771
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973