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Though small decorative objects in the lacca povera ("poor-man's lacquer") technique, embellished with cutout and pasted-on prints, were quite popular during the eighteenth century, few examples survive.
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Title: Box
Date: ca. 1755–60
Culture: Italian, Venice
Medium: Papier mâché, painted, lacquered and decorated with decoupage prints lined with colored paper
Dimensions: Overall: 5 1/4 × 8 3/16 × 5 1/2 in. (13.3 × 20.8 × 14 cm)
Classification: Papier Mâché
Credit Line: Purchase, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, by exchange, 1995
Accession Number: 1995.135
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