Ashtray
Category
Household and miscellaneous
Date
1920 - 1959
Materials
Butterfly wings, Copper, Glass
Measurements
84 mm (D)
Collection
Nuffield Place, Oxfordshire
NT 1651436
Summary
Ashtray. Circular copper base covered with real overlapping pattern butterfly wings, glass covered. Finely beaded rim.
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
inscribed ; on base ; Morpho ; ; (?)