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Revenge
late 18th century
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
A: Circular box, lacquered black; B: cover, lacquered black, with engraving pasted on top, entitled "Revenge" and showing interior of a modest house, with dressed female lion sitting on edge of bed, while a male lion is about to cut off the tail of a monkey escaping through a window.
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Details
- Title: Revenge
- Date Created: late 18th century
- Location Created: England
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Lacquered boxwood and paper
- Credit line: From the collection of Mrs. Lathrop C. Harper
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