Scroll casket
Category
Leatherwork
Date
1937
Materials
Leather, wood and brass
Measurements
85 mm (H)282 mm (D)
Place of origin
United Kingdom
Order this imageCollection
Nuffield Place, Oxfordshire
NT 1651370
Summary
Presentation scroll casket. Rectangular, covered in petrol blue leather. 4 triangular feet. Brass front knob. Crest. Ribbon.
Provenance
Collection William R. Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, by bequest to Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 1963, by transfer to National Trust, Nuffield Place, 2011.
Marks and inscriptions
stamped ; on lid ; Presented to the Right Honourable Lord Nuffield, O.B.E., D.C.L., with the honourable freedom of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London \ 17 August 1937 [crest] ; gold ;