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Cigarette Box

ca.1905-1910 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Cigarette box, a small square pewter box with a hinged lid. The slightly domed lid is set with a square enamel picture showing a landscape at sunset with dark trees against a blue, yellow and orange sky. The enamel is signed DAVIS in the bottom, right hand corner. The pewter top of the lid has an irregular beaten surface.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Pewter with a wooden liner, enamelled lid.
Brief description
Cigarette box, pewter with enamel decoration and wooden liner, Birmingham, made by W.H. Hasler for Liberty & Co., 1905-10, enamel by Davis.
Physical description
Cigarette box, a small square pewter box with a hinged lid. The slightly domed lid is set with a square enamel picture showing a landscape at sunset with dark trees against a blue, yellow and orange sky. The enamel is signed DAVIS in the bottom, right hand corner. The pewter top of the lid has an irregular beaten surface.
Dimensions
  • Height: 5.2cm
  • Width: 8.9cm
  • Depth: 8.9cm
Style
Production typesmall batch
Marks and inscriptions
  • The enamel signed: DAVIS (In the bottom, right hand corner.)
  • 01021 / ENGLISH PEWTER / MADE BY / LIBERTY & CO. (Marked on the base)
Credit line
Gift of Liberty & Co. Ltd.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Liberty's 1875-1975, An Exhibition to Mark the Firm's Centenary, London, HMSO., 1975. An exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, July - October, 1975.
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.52-1976

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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