Perfume box
Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass, Glass, Silk, Stone, Wood
Measurements
190 mm (Length); 130 mm (W); 28 mm (D)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1340288
Summary
Perfume box made to appear as a book with gilt edges to leaves. Covered in pink silk material and embroidered with brass wire and strip applied in the form of flowers an leaves. Some coloured stones. Contains 12 small perfume phials of different scents. A single clasp remains.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.