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Square tea box covered with fragments of wallpaper. Leather hinges and loop closure indicate the box once had a lid, now missing. The wallpaper covering the box is roller-printed with a white geometric or trellis pattern and metallic gold sprigs on white ground.
boxes (containers)
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
leather
metal
metallic pigment
Box
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
10 x 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.547
1880-1890 (Based on wallpaper.)
Machine Printed
Box covering
White
Original
Machine Made
Paper
Sprigs
Geometric Pattern
Sprig
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