Box
Prisoner-of-war
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bone, Wood
Measurements
22 x 97 x 59 mm
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339419
Summary
Carved wooden box with sliding lid, shaped like a book with bone panels extending beyond brown painted sides. Decorative bone panels with punched circular design, painted. Sliding lid with central glazed panel depicting painted female figure, opens to reveal inner compartment. Prisoner-of-war work.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Makers and roles
Prisoner-of-war