Étui

Description This étui functioned as a sealing wax case, and is decorated with foliated scrolls and initials on the coat-of-arms.

Exhibitions

• Objects of Vertu: Precious Works of the Eighteenth Century. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1984.

Provenance Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914; by bequest Walters Art Museum, 1931.

Inscriptions [Inscription] Initials on coat-of-arms

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters