Miniature set in lid of tortoiseshell snuff box. (a) Miniature; French woman in very low necked white dress with pink sash and yellow shawl. Miniature, round, set in gold metal bezel on round, tortoise box lid. Bezel engraved ‘Carolinte’ (top), ‘Isabey” (bottom). Signed ‘Vieth’ below mid, left margin. Diameter 8.54 cm. x 1.15 cm. (b) Box base, round, tortoiseshell. Flange is broken. Diameter 8.54 cm. x 1.64 cm.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
France
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Tortoise shell
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Miniature (size attribute)
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Accession date:
1909
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)