Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Box for three implements, follows the shape of a spoon. Lid attached to bottom with two small hinges on back small hooks and rings on front side. Top of lid stamped leather with gold; an urn with flowers in the centre, a laurel wreath and chains on each side, flowers, grapes and pears along the sides. Inside of box covered with green wool fabric.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- second half 18th century
- Credit Line
- The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
- Medium
- Leather, wood, wool, brass
- Dimensions
- L x W: 26 x 5.5 cm (10 1/4 x 2 3/16 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Case for Traveling Cutlery
