Dressing case
Lansdowne
Category
Leatherwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather, glass, silk, bone, silver and canvas
Measurements
152 x 395 x 307 mm
Place of origin
Piccadilly
Order this imageCollection
Berrington Hall, Herefordshire
NT 343045
Summary
Lady's travelling/dressing case. Dark green leather, silk lined. Brown canvas outer cover with eleven press fasteners, 1920s. Contains: one bone/ivory? backed hairbrush, 200mm long; two bone/ivory? backed clothes brushes, 135 mm; one bone/ivory? handle button hook, 230 mm; one leather-backed mirror, 180x130mm; one leather comb case - empty, 210x43mm; one ten-sided rectangular glass bottle with dented silver screw top, 94mm; one twelve-sided rectangular glass bottle with dented silver screw top, 91mm; one ten-sided rectangular glass bottle with dented silver screw top, 83mm; one sixteen-sided oval glass bottle with dented silver screw top, containing face powder and puff, 90mm; one ten-sided cylindrical glass bottle with non-screwtop, 164mm, containing one hat pin with plain, round, gold-coloured knob, 150mm; one leather manicure set, 194x125mm, holder containing two bone/ivory? handled button hooks, 128 and 111 mm long; one bone/ivory? handled cuticle tool, 108 mm; one bone/ivory? handled nail file, 110mm; one pair of scissors, 99mm.
Provenance
Gifted to the National Trust by Mrs B Mattinson in 1989.
Makers and roles
Lansdowne , maker