Shell basket
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal, vegetal, shell, card and string; tissue paper, wrapping paper and gimp.
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 939685
Summary
Square cardboard box covered in Christmas wrapping paper, red and green holly pattern on white ground. Contains a small basket adorned with an assortment of shells in a variety of colours; a floral arrangement made up of shells fills the basket. A small cream card label is tied to the handle of the basket by string; it reads '8/- / Made / with / shells from / the sand in Barbados'. The box also contains tissue packaging paper and a piece of green gimp.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).