Jewelry Box
MOA: University of British Columbia
Ch213 a-l
Yellow earthenware jewelry box (part a) in the form of an escritoire, with two long lower drawers (parts b-c), and 9 smaller ones above (parts d-l). Painted with purple-red scenes of buildings and trees in black framed, rectangular, white reserves on upper and lower sides and drawer fronts. Each drawer opens and has a knob handle.
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Cultural Context
functional; decorative
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Specific Techniques
tin-glazed
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History Of Use
This jewelry box in the shape of a chest of drawers is painted with small landscapes with ruins in the style of baroque romanticism.
- Type of Item box
- Culture Slavic
- Material paint, glaze, clay
- Manufacturing Technique moulded, luted, glazed, refired, painted, fired, shaped
- Measurements height 35.5 cm, width 24.2 cm, depth 11.9 cm (overall)
- Previous Owner Walter C. Koerner
- Received from Walter C. Koerner
- Made in Tata
- Creation Date between 1750 and 1800
- Ownership Date before December 2, 1988
- Acquisition Date on December 2, 1988
- Item Classes ceramics; earthenware; tin-glaze
- Condition good
- Accession Number 1417/0381 a-l