Box, Trinket

Object Name:

Box, Trinket

Object ID:

1994.517.05

Description:

Box, trinket. Round. Dark brown, turned and carved wood box. Flat bottom with a few fine concentric circles on it. Short straight edge at bottom with diagonal reeding all the way around. Small, flat lip with a cove above it which leads to a half-round with diagonal carved grooves that angle to the left. Reeding angled to right. In the cove, series of five shallow grooves separated by a blank area. Five shallow vertical grooves separated by equal width of blank surface. Above the half round, straight vertical lip that is short. Inside edge slightly curved and leads to flat bottom with a number of concentric lines in it. Top stops with lip and shallow cove above it that extends outward. Cove has alternating 5-vertical line design separated by equal length blank smooth areas. Above that, a curved edge that leads inward to a domed top. On edge, series of diagonal to right reeds with small notches on their left sides. Raised central medallion with a llama sitting up from ground with horizontal body and raised neck on domed top. LLama sitting on raised bank that has a number of fanciful stems on bottom edge of it. Above the llama is a slightly abstract lyre symbol. Behind this, background of parallel lines and slightly scalloped edge. All of this is raised above a flat field with parallel, curved lines that create background. A continuous stem with three rounded lobes spaced around edge of background. From stem, six three-leaf clovers on short stems. Inside of cover, concave with several concentric lines in a decorative pattern.

Material:

Wood

Dimensions:

H-1.44 Dia-2.46 inches Weight-2.05 oz

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Collection