Works of Art (27)
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Perfume Burner, dated 1599,
Giuseppe de'Levi (Italian),
Italian (Veronese),
Bronze (41.100.84a,b) |
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Biscuit box with cover, ca. 1870,
Christopher Dresser (British),
Earthenware, silver plate (1992.282a,b) |
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Box depicting the Five Senses, third quarter of 17th century, English, Silk, metal thread, pearls, and mica on silk satin applied to wooden frame (29.23.1) |
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Box with Aristotle and Phyllis, 14th century, French; Made in Paris ca. 1310-30, Ivory (1988.1.6) |
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Box with Sleeping Eros, 300s, Roman or Byzantine; Said to have been found in Tartus, Syria, Silver (47.100.33) |
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Box,
René-Jules Lalique (French),
Seicoid (cellulose acetate) (24.145.3ab) |
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Box, ca. 1875,
French, Gold and enamel (2002.258) |
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The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box), September 1934, Marcel Duchamp (French), Box containing collotype reproductions on various papers (2002.42a–vvvv) |
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Bursa Reliquary, early 900s, North Italian, Bone, copper-gilt, wood (53.19.2) |
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Casket (cofanetto or scrigno), ca. 1570–90,
Venice,
Beech wood, partially gilded and painted rosewood veneer; gold powder, gold leaf, silver flakes, silver-gilt, bronze, and yellow metal (57.25ab) |
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Casket (cofanetto or scrigno), ca. 1575–1600,
Venice,
Beech wood, painted and decorated ebony with encrustations of mother-of-pearl; gilded ivory, and gouache miniatures on parchment under glass; later textile-lining (17.190.848) |
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Casket, 11th–12th century, Probably southern Italy or Sicily, Ivory (17.190.241) |
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Cassone, 1461–65, Marco del Buono Giamberti (Italian, Florentine); Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso (Italian, Florentine), Italian (Florence), Painted and gilded gesso on poplar, set with a wooden panel painted in tempera and gold (14.39) |
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Chrismatory, ca. 1200–1220, Limoges, Copper: engraved, chased, and gilt; champlevé enamel: lapis and lavender blue, turquoise, light and dark green, red, and white (17.190.853) |
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Jewel box, 1920,
Dagobert Peche (Austrian); Manufacturer: Wiener Werkstätte,
Gilded silver (1978.8a-c) |
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Jewelry casket, 1857,
Pietro Giusti (Italian),
Carved walnut, ebony, lined with red velvet (1998.19) |
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Larnax (chest-shaped coffin), mid-13th century B.C.; Late Minoan IIIB, Minoan; Greece, Crete, Terracotta (1996.521a,b) |
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Plaque, 10th–early 11th century; Caliphal, Attributed to Córdoba, Spain, Ivory, quartz, pigment (13.141) |
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Pyxis (box with lid), mid-8th century B.C.; Geometric, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (48.11.5a,b) |
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Pyxis, 10th century (950–975); Caliphal, Spanish; Made in Andalusia, Ivory (1970.234.5) |
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Pyxis, ca. 1400–1100 B.C.; Late Minoan IIIB, Minoan; Greece, Crete, Terracotta (1999.423) |
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Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket, ca. 1173–1180, English or German, Silver with niello, gemstone (17.190.520) |
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Reliquary of the True Cross (Staurotheke), late 8th–early 9th century, Byzantine; Made in Constantinople, Cloisonné enamel, silver, silver-gilt, gold, niello (17.190.715ab) |
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Six-Sided Container, 200–300, Roman; Probably made in Gaul, Copper alloy with millefiore enamel (47.100.7) |
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Snuffbox, ca. 1764–65, Possibly by Pierre-François-Mathis de Beaulieu (French), French; Paris, Four-color gold, enamel (17.190.1158) |
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Snuffbox, ca. 1815
Maker: Gabriel-Raoul Morel (French); School of Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French) and possibly Madame Aimée-Zoë Lizinka de Mirbel (French)
Gold, ivory (17.190.1114)
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Table snuffbox, ca. 1745–50, Russian; Probably region of Velikiy Ustyg, Partially polished green turban snail; gilded, matted, punched, and engraved silver; niello (1995.327) |
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