BOX
Creator(s): Unknown (Jeweler)
Currently in storage
About this object
The body of the box is made from a single piece of tortoise shell that has been shaped so that it is ribbed like a flat melon. Along each rib and around the upper edge are rows of small silver circles set in the tortoiseshell. The cover is another piece of tortoiseshell, similarly shaped but flatter and inset with same series of small silver circles. The hinge and edge about the two sections is made in silver and plain except for a projecting thumb piece. Piqué work.
- Object name:
- BOX
- Made from:
- Tortoise shell -- silver
- Made in:
- England
- Date made:
- 18th Century
- Size:
- 10.2 × 8.3 cm (4 × 3 1/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 36.52
- Class:
- SHELL
- Signature marks:
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973