Reverse Painted Box

Object Name: 
Reverse Painted Box

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Object Name: 
Reverse Painted Box
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Mexico, Baja California Sur, Magdelena
Mexico, Sonora
Accession Number: 
97.5.1
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 10 cm, W: 13.1 cm, L: 25.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1995
Credit Line: 
Gift of Susanne K. Frantz
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass; Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil, tin, paint; flat glass, cold-painted, assembled. Rectangular box with design of two flowers on top and zig-zags on four sides; painted, then lined with crumpled and smoothed out aluminum foil, then backed with pieces of tin (from oil cans); hinged lid and closure-loop so can be locked.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Frantz, Susanne K., Former Collection
1997-04-15
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
assembling
cold painting
Material: 
glass
foil
tin
paint
Inscription: 
Made/in/Mexico
Label
: 
on bottom of base gummed label
SO/MATI
Label
: 
on back of clasp
Made from 'PEMEX/CD' (single grade oil for automabiles , diesel
Label
: 
on bottom of base