Jewellery box ➔ Medina.
Identifier:
MusA-293Description
This jewellery box is a handmade piece, made of wood, veneered in bird´s eye with a vertically sliding lid, leafed with satinwood and edged with Brazilwood. The author called it "Medina", because that is what its shape reminded him of.Geometrically, it consists of two parts, the storage compartment and the lid. Together they form a solid which, without taking the decorations into account, is a straight square prism /square cuboid, just like each of the two parts, compartment and lid. On each lateral face of the lid (hollow, open at the bottom), a round arch has been cut out; the edges (including those of the arches) are decorated with "columns" Brazilwood, featuring four small cubes at their intersections, which match the upper vertices of the lid. When the jewellery box is opened, by sliding vertically, the lid separtes completely from the compartment.
Dimensões
8,1 cm; widthDate
1996 Date manufactureInternal Notes
Este guarda-joias foi construído em 1996, no século 20, com madeiras nobres, revestida a olho-de-perdiz, com tampa verticalmente deslizante, folheada a pau-cetim, orlada com madeira de Pernambuco (pau-Brasil). O autor designou-a por "Medina" porque o desenho lhe fez lembra uma medina. A peça é essencialmente decorativa, no entanto, o seu cariz é utilitário, servindo portanto, como guarda-joias. O guarda-joias "Medina" faz parte integrante da coleção dos 81 guarda-joias, doada à Universidade de Aveiro pelo Sr. Eng.º Joaquim Domingos Capela em Dezembro de 2013.Languages
PortugueseEnglish
Related people
Engenheiro Joaquim Domingos Capela (1943) ()Oficina Joaquim Domingos Capela ()
Related place
São Félix da Marinha (was created at)Related Term
Related Terms
Exhibitions (depicts)Jewelry box (depicts)
Geometry, Solid (depicts)
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