Covered box

Elizabeth Ethel Copeland (American, 1866–1957)

1912

Object PlaceBoston, Massachusetts

Medium/TechniqueSilver and enamel

DimensionsOverall: 4.4 × 10.8 × 8.3 cm (1 3/4 × 4 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.)

Credit LineGift of Dyann and Peter Wirth

Accession number2021.691a-b

On View

On view

ClassificationsSilver hollowware

Collections

Americas

InscriptionsUnderbase is incised EC twice and dated 1912; interior of upper lid incised EC

ProvenanceBy 2017, owned by Jacqueline Loewe Fowler (d. 2020), Stamford, CT; June 6, 2017, sold at Sotheby's New York (Property from the Jacquline Fowler Collection, lot 21) to Peter Wirth, Boston; 2021, given by Wirth to the MFA. (Accession date: December 15, 2021)