Collection Highlights
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
ca. 1941
1987.16
Plaster with purplish red-brown stipple finish
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Pill box
Object name
Pill box
Date
1969-1986
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
Overall: 3/4 x 1 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. ( 1.9 x 4.4 x 3.2 cm )
Description
Rectangualr silver pill box with a hinged lid; raised concave lid with an oval dome in the center;maker's mark stamped on the base.
Credit Line
Gift of Juan Pliego
Object Number
2000.135
Marks
stamped: on the base: "PLIEGO" below a two-faced Mexican Venus between two scrolls, all in an elongated hexagon above "STERLING"
Gallery Label
Juan Agustin Antonio Pliego Coonejo was born in Tolus Estado, Mexico. Pliego came to New York in 1965 and studied graphic design, which led to work as a layout editor for "Ladies Home Journal". D