About the Artwork
Jewelry Box
1685
(Artist) English (Artist) Jamaican, West Indies
Tortoise shell, silver, and pigment with modern velvet and textile removeable linings
Overall (closed): 8 1/16 × 11 1/16 × 7 11/16 inches (20.5 × 28.1 × 19.6 cm)
Furniture Accessories
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
48.5
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed: Jamaica 1685
Provenance
(Paul Graupe, Paris, France);consigned to (Schaeffer Galleries, New York, New York, USA);
1948-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Page, Addison Franklin. "A Tortoiseshell Box," Bulletin of the DIA 28, no. 3 (1948): pp. 58-59, p. 58 (ill.).
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Jamaican, West Indies; possibly English, Jewelry Box, 1685, tortoise shell, silver, and pigment with modern velvet and textile removeable linings. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 48.5.
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