A special type of container known as a skippet, this box was made to protect a wax impression of the ducal grand seal that would have exited the container on one end (since repaired). The seal would have been attached to an important document by a strip of parchment or cloth. Detailed engravings cover the box, including the coat of arms of the Dukes of Burgundy surrounded by the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece on the front, sixteen coats of arms of the duchies and earldoms united in the Duchy of Burgundy on the side, and the fire steel and sparking flint emblem used by the dukes on the reverse. The motto on a banderole around the fire steel reads: Je ley en prient(I have undertaken), which was used by Duke Charles the Bold (1433–1477). This elaborately decorated and gilded circular box is a rare and refined memento of the grandiose court of the Dukes of Burgundy.