ID: 700008548 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008548	Record Type: Movable Work

Box for Traveling Tea Service (box (container); for Martin Berthe; 1728/1729; Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, ...; 1993.520.8)

Titles:

Box for Traveling Tea Service (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Wooden Box (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

box (container) [300045643] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Containers (hierarchy name), containers (receptacles), <containers by form>)

Classifications:

decorative arts (preferred)

Creation Date: 1728/1729

Creator Display:

for Martin Berthe [preferred,VP]

compiler (literature) Berthe, Martin (French silversmith, master 1712) [500093742]

Locations:

Current: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) [500305147] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1993.520.8

Credit Line: Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Collection

Display Materials: kingwood and rosewood

	kingwood (wood) [300136737]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, hardwood)

	rosewood (wood) [300012424]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, hardwood)

Dimensions: 15.2 x 26 x 22.2 cm (6 x 10 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.)

General Subject:

utilitarian objects (preferred,isness)

Provenance: Set: November 11, 1955, sold by Au Vieux Paris (Bonnefoy et Cie.), Paris, to Elizabeth Parke Firestone (b. 1897 - d. 1990) and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. (b. 1898 - d. 1973), Akron, OH and Newport, RI; 1993; gift of the Estate of Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 26, 1993)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: decorative and utilitarian works

............... Tea Service with Fitted Case

Sources and Contributors:
Box for Traveling Tea Service	........ [VP]
	........ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)
Wooden Box	........ [VP]
	........ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)

Subject: ....... [VP]