Sewing box
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card, Ivory, Paper, Silk, Wood
Measurements
190 mm (Length); 135 mm (W); 78 mm (H)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1332921
Summary
Marquetry wood sewing box with sliding lid decorated with floral centre panel. Four ivory thread holes at front. Interior has four small compartments and one larger compartment with hinged lid and material tab. Box contains silk thread of various colours on card backings and blue tissue paper.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.