Traveling Necessaire

Vienna, Austria

Probably 19th century

Medium
Sharkskin with gold mounts; gold and gilding; velvet; steel, agate, and gold mounts
Classification
Metalwork
Dimensions
Overall: 19.4 × 7.6 × 10.8 cm (7 5/8 × 3 × 4 1/4 in.)
Culture
Austria
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Applied Arts of Europe
Credit line
As a Gift from Miss Mary Louise Stevenson.
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago