Small oval bandbox without lid. Box is covered with wallpaper with stylized rosettes on a marbleized background. Block printed in ochre, salmon and gold on a beige ground.
bandboxes (containers)
paper (fiber product)
Bandbox
"Mary Ann / Robinson / Apr[illegible]" (Handwritten on bottom)
Unknown
France
2 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Avis and Rockwell Gardiner
1968.139
1810-1830 (Date of wallpaper)
Possibly France
Block Printed
Bandbox
Beige
Original
Handmade
Paper
rosettes
marble
Marble
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