Vanity box and comb

Museum number:
5-13070a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
9-5164a,b (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.1149
Description:
Vanity box with comb; A) vanity box: wood painted with varicolored floral design; hinged top; mirror inside top; compartments in box for comb; two lost objects and compass (in place); width 10.3 cm; B) wood comb with fine teeth, round exterior; width 7.2 cm.
Donor:
Harold Heath and Ida Shelley
Collection place:
Tunis, Tunisia
Verbatim coll. place:
Tunisia; Tunis (Moslem)
Culture or time period:
Arabs
Collector:
Harold Heath
Collection date:
before 1954
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.8 Toilet Articles
Production date:
ca 1600 AD
Accession date:
1954
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Comment:
Arabic vanity box found in Tunis. Said to date to ca. 1600 AD.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Vanity box and comb, accession number 5-13070a,b, described as Vanity box with comb; A) vanity box: wood painted with varicolored floral design; hinged top; mirror inside top; compartments in box for comb; two lost objects and compass (in place); width 10.3 cm; B) wood comb with fine teeth, round exterior; width 7.2 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vanity box and comb, accession number 5-13070a,b, described as Vanity box with comb; A) vanity box: wood painted with varicolored floral design; hinged top; mirror inside top; compartments in box for comb; two lost objects and compass (in place); width 10.3 cm; B) wood comb with fine teeth, round exterior; width 7.2 cm.

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