Collection Highlights
Physician's saddlebags w/bottles & bundles
1800-1850
1954.11
Leather, metal, glass, paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Cigar box
Title
Cigar box
Object name
Tobacco box
Date
ca. 1760
Medium
Brass, copper
Dimensions
Overall: 1 1/4 x 6 1/8 x 1 7/8 in. ( 3.2 x 15.6 x 4.8 cm )
Description
Copper-sided oblong box with hinged brass lid die-stamped portraits of George III and Frederick the Great with coat of arms and allegorical figures and on brass base, Frederick the Great, eagle in round cartouches and scrolling cartouches with battle scenes.
Credit Line
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number
1937.1261
Marks
embossed: top: "PROTE/FOR/IDE/GEORGIUS III REX ANGLIAE/EX PUGNA....ASTAT" and "FREDERICUS REX BORUSSIA/P & O GLORIA ET" ; bottom : "FRIDERICUS BORRUSSORUX REX/LOWOSITZ/PRAG/DEIN NAHME IST GENUG SIEALLE ZU BESIEGEN/JETZT WELB DIE GANZE WELT SCHON DEINES KRIEGES LAUF/DUFANGST MIT SIEGEN AN UND HORST MIT SIEGEN AUF"
Gallery Label
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
