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 book shaped box, with painted bone panels and sliding lid with central glazed panel with painted lady which opens to reveal the compartment. Surround top an bottom patterned with coloured, punched dimples. 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