1997.105: Box
BoxesThis small hand painted porcelain box could fit in the hand. The upper half of the lid shows a seated fair-skinned couple holding hands. The women on right wears a pink and yellow hoop skirt dress, the man on left wears a long blue jacket with purple and white stockings as they sit in a natural landscape. The sides of the white box are trimmed with gold paint in a cross-hatch pattern with blue painted scallops in the corners.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1997.105
- People
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Manufactured by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German (founded 1710)
- Title
- Box
- Classification
- Boxes
- Work Type
- box
- Date
- c. 1870
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Germany
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/226895
Location
- Location
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Level 1, Room 1510, Modern and Contemporary Art, Disrupt the View: Arlene Shechet at the Harvard Art Museums
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Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Porcelain with enamels and gold
- Dimensions
- 4 x 3.5 x 4 cm (1 9/16 x 1 3/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- manufacturer's mark: bottom of boxf, blue underglaze: [crossed swords, dot underneath] [mark of Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Marcolini period]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Walter P. Gunn, Jr. family, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 1997
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Walter P. Gunn, Jr. Family
- Accession Year
- 1997
- Object Number
- 1997.105
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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