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Oval pasteboard hat box covered with block printed classical wallpaper. It shows a Roman figure in a chariot pulled by a team of two griffins along a tree lined road, littered by overturned amphoras. In shades of pink, brown and green on a yellow ground. The lid has a related classical pattern of swags and flower festoons strung between balusters.
hatboxes
accessories
pasteboard (paper)
wallpapers
figure- and animal-derived motifs
allegory (artistic device)
chariots (carriages)
Classical Revival (European revival style)
Particle Board
Wallpaper
Classical Revival
Allegorical Figure
Chariot
Griffin
BOX, HAT
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
11 1/2 x 17 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.678
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