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Cloisonné Box Containing Ambergris
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum of the National Archives and Records Administration
U.S. National Archives
United States
Brass cloisonné box elaboratly decorated with a purple background and a floral design, containing five lumps of ambergris. Presented to FDR in February 1945 by King Abdulaziz Al-Saud (Ibn Saud) during their meeting on the Great Bitter Lake. FDR Library Museum Collection, MO 1947.93.505.
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- Title: Cloisonné Box Containing Ambergris
- Creator: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum of the National Archives and Records Administration
- Location: Saudi Arabia
- Physical Dimensions: Brass cloisonné box containing five lumps of ambergris. Dimensions overall: 2 1/2" h x 7 1/8" w x 4 1/8" d
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