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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