Circular pasteboard bandbox (A) with lid (B) and handle. Box covered in paper with a diamond foliate medallion and rosette pattern. Block printed in green and red on what appears to be unground paper. The lid rim is block-printed with green spheres on white ground. Evidence of repair to the lid rim and box edge.
bandboxes (containers)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Bandbox
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
2001.314
2002.63.34ab
Unknown
1 3/8 (H), 13 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.34AB
Block Printed
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Paper
medallion
leaf
vine
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