Decanter box
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Boxwood [buxus sempervirens], Glass, Felt fabric
Measurements
55 mm (Height); 64 mm (Diameter)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339790
Summary
Decanter box - Small circular box of varnished wood, the lid, which screws on, is inlaid with woods of a circular pattern. Felt pad inside top of lid. Insert with four sectioned circles to interior containing three miniature glass decanters with glass stoppers and a wooden funnel in the centre. Illegibile handwriting and ‘5/--’ written on base (cf.1339789).
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.