Tableaux Music Box: Museum Object and Cultural History
Tableaux Music Box: date made: 1850-1860. Object Name: Music Box. Physical Description: wood (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
This music box was made by an undetermined maker and place, around 1850-1860. It is a tableaux music box , with 1 tune, Toreador Song from the opera, Carmen. This music box has a model ship with a painted ocean scene inside a glass dome on a wooden base. The music box is activated by a key wound spring.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1850-1860
- Object Name: Music Box
- Physical Description: wood (overall material)
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: glass (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 16 in x 15 in x 7 1/2 in; 40.64 cm x 38.1 cm x 19.05 cm
- ID Number: MI.59.1571
- catalog number: 59.1571
- accession number: 222947
- Credit Line: Bequest of Charles W. Lampoh
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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