ÉTUI

Creator(s): Unknown

On view in: Second Floor Hallway

About this object

The background is in dark blue enamel with a lattice and fleurettes in raised white enamel. On each section is a cartouche painted in colors and with a frame in raised gilt scrolls. On the lower half a shepherd carrying his crook and two sheep in a landscape, and a shepherdess reading to a shepherd seated beside her on a bank with sheep and trees in the background. On the upper half the cartouches are painted with flowers on a white ground. On the cover is a spray of leaves and flowers in gilt, raised, against a dark blue ground. Ormolu mounts are finely chased. On the inside are four fittings, two other are missing.

Object name:

ÉTUI

Made from:

Enamel on copper -- gilt copper

Made in:

ENGLAND: South Staffordshire, Bilston or Wednesbury

Date made:

ca. 1770

Size:

9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

15.165

Class:

ENAMEL

Signature marks:

LABEL At the bottom a round paper label with zig-zag edges and the number "4" in the center

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973