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Small wooden box with dome lid attached with leather hinges. The box is covered in fragments of wallpaper with a masonry and ashlars or coffer pattern block-printed in browns that were once likely green, tans and creams on a cream ground. Box interior lined with plain paper.
boxes (containers)
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
leather
metal
block printing (relief printing process)
Box
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
France
5 x 11 x 6 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.546
Possibly France
Block Printed
box covering
Cream
Original
Handmade
Paper
masonry blocks
ashlar
coffers
Masonry
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