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Music Box And Key
This is a Music box and key. It is dated late 19th century and we acquired it in 1957. Its medium is wood, brass, printed paper. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
The invention of the comb and cylinder music box is accredited to the Swiss watchmaker Antoine Favre-Salomon in 1796. In the nineteenth century Geneva became an important center for music box production. The melody is produced when a rotating cylinder with projecting pins strikes the teeth of a steel comb.
This object was
donated by
Estate of Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper.
It is credited From the collection of Mrs. Lathrop C. Harper.
- Drawing, The Music Party
- brush and watercolor, white gouache, graphite on white wove paper.
- Thaw Collection.
- 2007-27-46
- Music Stand (USA)
- hand-carved cherry wood.
- Gift of Mrs. Eric Larrabee.
- 1997-11-3
- Drawing, Study 140, "The Magic Fire-Scene," from Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
- color pencil, graphite on cream wove paper.
- Gift of the Estate of John De Cesare.
- 1982-25-61
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 11.1 × 40.6 × 12.1 cm (4 3/8 in. × 16 in. × 4 3/4 in.)
Cite this object as
Music Box And Key; wood, brass, printed paper; H x W x D: 11.1 × 40.6 × 12.1 cm (4 3/8 in. × 16 in. × 4 3/4 in.); From the collection of Mrs. Lathrop C. Harper; 1957-165-1-a,b
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Ellen DeGeneres Selects.
