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Pasteboard bandbox with lid. Box [A] is covered with block-printed border wallpaper with drapery swag pattern on blue ground. The interior bottom of box is lined with newspaper. Half of the lid [B] is covered in wallpaper with a flower bouquet in vase. The other half is covered with a scene of a woman beside a fountain. Both lid papers are on blue ground. The box has a string handle.
bandboxes (containers)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Bandbox
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
2001.301
2002.63.21ab
Unknown
United States
11 1/2 x 18 1/4 x 16 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.21AB
Block Printed
Bandbox
Blue
Original
Handmade
Laid
Paper
Drapery Swag
Floral
Fountain
Animals
Pastoral
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