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Small decorative box with basketweave print (empty)
Object/Artifact
Small two-piece rigid paperboard set-up box — a lift-off lid over a shallow base/tray — rectangular, covered inside and out with cream paper printed in coral/pink with a repeating basketweave (woven-square / cross-hatch) pattern. The lid is shown resting askew over the base. The interior is plain, uncoated paperboard, heavily foxed and stained. No lettering, label, or seal anywhere on the piece.
2025.1.276
Preserved by Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez
A small decorative packaging or gift box of a generic type used for minor toiletries, soaps, small notions, jewelry, or gift items. Because it is entirely unmarked, neither its original contents nor its origin can be established from the object itself.
The Cabrera Arús family collection
Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez collecition
2025.1
Date: undetermined (tentatively mid-20th century on stylistic grounds; not fixable from the object). Possibly pre-revolutionary.
1.7 cm
5.5 cm
13 cm
Lift-off lid; base/tray. (Both present.)
Cardboard
Rigid paperboard; lithographed paper covering.
Fair
Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use