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Box

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

GUSN

GUSN-40695

Description

A wooden medicine box covered in green leather with a gold geometric design. Interior compartmentalized into eighty two sections designed to hold medical vials.

Details

Descriptive Terms

medicine chests
wood (plant material)
leather
paper (fiber product)
glass (material)
Box, Household
Chest, Medicine
Chest, Medicine

Maker

Unknown

Accession Number

1940.714

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