Cooper-Hewitt Museum ; Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design,
Date of Publication
1982.
Physical Description
128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Series
The Smithsonian illustrated library of antiques
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 123.
Summary
Beginning with some of the earliest examples available to us, William Ketchum describes splendid boxes of ivory, ebony, gold and alabaster from the tomb of Tutankhamun; a gold-leaf box inlaid with mother-of-pearl and lapis lazuli, and other such precious boxes.
