Lid for a Round Box
c. 1770
Maker Unknown
Decorative Art and Design
Lid for a Round Box, c. 1770. France, 18th century. Tortoise shell decorated in red lacquer with inlays of gold, brass, and silver; contains a portrait miniature; diameter: 2.3 x 6.4 cm (7/8 x 2 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, In memory of Ruth Probala 1988.48.b
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Miscellaneous
- Formatted Medium
- tortoise shell decorated in red lacquer with inlays of gold, brass, and silver; contains a portrait miniature
- Medium
- tortoise, shell, decorated, red, lacquer, inlays, gold, brass, silver, contains, portrait, miniature
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 2.3 x 6.4 cm (7/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: miniature inscribed: annee [?]/1767.
- Departments
- Decorative Art and Design
- Accession Number
- 1988.48.b
- Credit Line
- In memory of Ruth Probala
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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