Writing box
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Lacquerware
Measurements
9 ins (l)8.875 ins (w)3.75 ins (l)0.875 ins (w)0.45 ins (d)
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Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 1274775
Summary
A Japanese black lacquer writing box, the lid decorated with golden bamboo stems, the inside mottled brown. Contains a slate slab, metal ink pot and gilt character stamp with raised black decoration on two long sides in cardboard box with blue and gilt covering.
Provenance
Bequest of George Bernard Shaw 1950