Jewellery box
Category
Wooden objects
Date
1870
Materials
Bone, Porcupine quill, Reed, Vegetaline, Wood
Place of origin
India
Collection
Killerton, Devon
NT 1356161
Summary
Rectangular jewellery box of dark stained wood with strips of parallel (reeds / porcupine quills) arranged in light / dark patterns. The wood with inlaid discs of bone / vegetable ivory. The interior diveded into nine compartments with bone discs - decorated covers. Indian. This type of Indian workbox rarely had fitted tools. 1870 (circa)