Humidor
ca. 1875
Kimbel and Cabus
1863-1882
Decorative Arts
This casket-form humidor, a humidity-controlled container for cigars, would have been a fashionable and thoroughly Modern Gothic accessory in a customer’s dining room or library. The metal mounts conform precisely to the object and emphasize its structure, and may have been custom fabricated by one of the various hardware retailers that Kimbel and Cabus regularly patronized for the metal elements used on their furniture forms.
- Maker/Artist
- Kimbel and Cabus
- Classification
- Smoking/Drugs
- Formatted Medium
- American black walnut, brass-plated nickel
- Medium
- american, black, walnut, brass-plated, nickel
- Dimensions
- 8 1/8 × 18 × 10 1/4 in. (20.6 × 45.7 × 26 cm)
- Inscribed
- no inscriptions
- Departments
- Decorative Arts
- Accession Number
- 2017.7
- Credit Line
- Purchase gift of Deedee and Barrie Wigmore
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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