Cigarette Box
ca.1905-1910 (made)
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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
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| 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. |
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| Production type | small batch |
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| Credit line | Gift of Liberty & Co. Ltd. |
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| 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. |
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| Accession number | CIRC.52-1976 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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