Casket
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
1850 - 1900
Materials
Ebony,brass,ormolu,marble and lapis lazuli
Measurements
250 x 310 x 260 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872514
Summary
Box; Casket - Florentine casket of ebonized wood, decorated with panels of specimen marbles and mounted with chased brass leafage forming boughs of fruit. These are mainly of lapis lazuli and other stones. it is also decorated with ormolu corner swags and paw feet. Complete with a key.
Provenance
No details of acquisition but by descent to Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951), 4th Earl of Morley and accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of Estate Duty as part of the important chattels associated with Saltram House and transferred to NT in 1957.