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Letter casket
Also titled Brievendoos
c. 1808 - c. 1810
- Medium
- mahogany (wood), gilding (material), brass (alloy), oak (wood)
- Classification
- brievenbus
- Dimensions
- height 56 cm x width 54 cm x depth 45 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijke Verzamelingen
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This letter casket or box comes from Louis Napoleon’s office in the royal palace. It was a new type of furniture, used to store documents for the King’s attention so that servants could not read them. The casket’s form is based on a shield from antiquity.
