The cylindrical body with a repeating gilt-rosette and latticework grid design, cover damaged. Includes a sample of snuff from Horace Walpole's tobacconist (Fribourg & Treyer).
Oak veneered with marquetry of ebony, rosewood, brass, copper, pewter, and tortoiseshell; with gilded mounts
Description:
Title devised by curator., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A remarkably fine Old Boule Coffer, a splendid specimen of this work, at an early period, the front elaborately finished with tortoiseshell ground work, massive or-molu mountings, masque handles, chased rosette corners, and lined with blue silk, on a pedestal en-suite, with richly worked boule back and stand for porcelaine., and Also available as a digital reproduction.
Three figures participating in various tasks relating to harvesting salt in a salt marsh
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Leonid Berman, part of a group known as the Neo-Romanticists, was born in 1896 in Saint Petersburg, moved to France in 1919 and in 1946 relocated to the United States., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title devised by curator. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Physical diagnosis, Hand lenses, Medicines, Tongues, Sick persons, and Physicians