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Leather-hinged, wooden box lid covered with wallpaper. The lid has fragments of a leather hinge held on with metal tacks along on side and a small leather flap, or handle, held with two tacks on the top to aid in lifting the lid from the box. The wallpaper covering the lid is block-printed in blue with a delicate sprig pattern on ungrounded paper. The same sprig pattern, printed in white on blue paper, is found in a small chest in the Historic New England collection, see 2001.281.553. The pattern was reproduced by Waterhouse Wallhangings with the name "Treasure Chest," see 2001.281.773.1-.4.
boxes (containers)
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
leather
metal
floral patterns
Box
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
9 1/8 x 5 7/8 x 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1202
1790-1810 (Date of wallpaper)
United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.257
Title Box Accession Number 2001.281.553
Title Reproduction Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.773.1-.4
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.707
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.708
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.709
Block Printed
Covering small box lid
Ungrounded
Original
Handmade
Paper
Stylized flowers
grasses
Sprig
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