Small, wooden box with hinged lid. Covered in geometric patterned paper. Three-dimensional diamond shapes or parallelapipedon, foliate medallions in each. Blockprinted in white and black on a red ground. Inside is lined with blockprinted, floral paper on a blue ground.
boxes (containers)
wallpapers
Box
1662
Moses Grant Jr. & Co. (Manufacturer)
United States
4 5/8 x 8 x 4 1/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Rockwell Gardiner
1972.124
"Wallpaper in New England," fig. 19.3, pg. 88.
United States
Title Accession Number 1965.1.2
Block Printed
Bandbox
Blue
Original
Handmade
Laid
Paper
diamond parallelopipedon
foliate medallions
vertical stripes
Geometric
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