BOX
Creator(s): Unknown (Jeweler)
Currently in storage
About this object
The rectangular box has rounded corners and is made from two pieces of goldstone with the sides curving inward. One piece forms the top, the other the bottom of the box. The hinge is made in gold and is ribbed with a plain thumb piece.
- Object name:
- BOX
- Made from:
- Goldstone -- gold
- Made in:
- France
- Date made:
- mid 19th-early 20th Century
- Size:
- 8.1 x 2.9 cm (3 3/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 21.98
- Class:
- HARDSTONE
- Signature marks:
- MARK On inner rim: two faintly struck marks that look suspicious, one looks like the fleurette for fermier general Julien Alaterre (ca. 1776); the other is a very faint lozenge-shaped mark, like 19th c. marks LABEL 19 [Underneath]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973