Box

Museum number:
7-5951
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21070005951
Alternate number:
2228 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Nutmeg box with grater. Hinged lid, engraved at rim; bottom also hinged; top of box fitted with silver grater. hall marks indicate years 1790-91. Maker's mark: T. Phipps, E. Robinson. 5.0 centimeters long, 3.0 centimeters wide, 2.3 centimeters deep.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
London, England
Verbatim coll. place:
England, London
Collector:
Walter Perry Johnson
Collection date:
pre-1948
Materials:
Silver (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Boxes (containers)
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Loans:
S1975-1976 #14: Wine Museum of San Francisco (September 25, 1975–December 28, 1976)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 7-5951, described as Nutmeg box with grater. Hinged lid, engraved at rim; bottom also hinged; top of box fitted with silver grater. hall marks indicate years 1790-91. Maker's mark: T. Phipps, E. Robinson. 5.0 centimeters long, 3.0 centimeters wide, 2.3 centimeters deep.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 7-5951, described as Nutmeg box with grater. Hinged lid, engraved at rim; bottom also hinged; top of box fitted with silver grater. hall marks indicate years 1790-91. Maker's mark: T. Phipps, E. Robinson. 5.0 centimeters long, 3.0 centimeters wide, 2.3 centimeters deep.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 7-5951, described as Nutmeg box with grater. Hinged lid, engraved at rim; bottom also hinged; top of box fitted with silver grater. hall marks indicate years 1790-91. Maker's mark: T. Phipps, E. Robinson. 5.0 centimeters long, 3.0 centimeters wide, 2.3 centimeters deep.

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