Box

  • Titles Box (Descriptive)
  • Medium wood
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Catherine Collins, 1964.103.5
  • Work Type box
  • Classification Containers

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Creamware covered urn on small square base decorated with gold bands and a lattice and dot pattern all around, the round foot likewise with gold bands and painted flower and leafy sprigs, the main body painted on both sides with on one children in a landscape, the boy playing a flute, the landscape extends around the entire body and on the second side the scene of a group of children at a tree with a boy climbing on a wall to reach it, with two gilded satyr handles whose horns extend up and around to meet the lip, the shoulder and neck likewise decorated with flower and leaf sprigs, the fixed domed cover with gold bands and ball finial highlighted in gold.
Tri-color diced jasper (green, yellow, and white) bell pull
Small, rectangular box with truncated edges, the top with a blue enamel band running around the edge, set with an enameled metal plaque painted with a view of the seaport at Constantinople (today's Istanbul) with rustic structures in a forested area in the foreground and a hilly landscape with trees and a large domed church on the hill on the right in the background, the plaque is edged in blue enamel and the gold around it is elaborately chased with a pattern of scrolling foliage and delicate stylized flowers, each side includes a central reserve edged in blue enamel and with a repeating pattern of small floral motifs inside, above the reserves runs a band of leafy and floral motifs around the perimeter of the box, each corner is decorated with a design of scrolling foliage; the underside of the box includes a border of stylized anthemion and vine motifs edged in blue enamel and a central panel, also edged in blue enamel, of an elaborate floral bouquet.
Oval metal medallion with relief of male figure with lyre