Objects and Their Properties

Description: The Basic Properties

• What do you think the object is and why?      
• When, where, by whom and for whom was it made?
• What are the materials of which it is made?  Do the materials suggest when it was made?
• What techniques were used to make it?  Is it well made?
• What does the construction suggest about the date and use of the object?
• What is its physical structure, shape, size, style, ornamentation?
• Are there parts missing from the object as a whole?
• What kind of writing does it have on it, if any?
• For what use was it originally intended? Who would have used this object and where?
• What, if any, changes in ownership, condition and function have occurred over time?

Media

Image Gallery (including instructions on lid)

	180° View (requires QuickTime) (1.2Mb)
	Image Gallery
	Directions Pamphlet (PDF, 1.6Mb)

	Image Gallery
	Instruction Pamphlet