Cigarette Box with Cover

Wedgwood

  • Titles Cigarette Box with Cover (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions bottom: 1 x 4 5/8 x 3 1/2 in. (2.5 x 11.7 x 8.9 cm) cover: 1/2 x 5 1/8 x 3 3/4 in. (1.3 x 13 x 9.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, AFI.716.2012a-b
  • Work Type box with cover
  • Classification Containers

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Obverse: General Napoleon on horseback crossing the Alps at the St. Bernhard Pass on May 14, 1800, prior to the battle of Marengo.