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Description:
Ref: 732SB http://hygra.com/box/732SB

Early Victorian rosewood and mother of pearl inlaid box with a sewing tray covered in the original printed paper and blue silk, with compartments for threads and sewing tools, circa 1850.
A box of pleasing proportions with accented with two small ornaments in mother of pearl inlay.

Origin: UK;  Circa: 1850 ; Materials: .

Size: 27.5 cm wide by 20 cm by 12 cm:   10.8 inches wide by  7.9 inches by  4.7 inches.

Condition: good overall; working lock and key; see images

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The interior of the box showing the tray, which has survived in good clean condition. The front lids lift out to reveal spaces for buttons etc. 

The blue-covered back oblongs are pincushions and do not lift out. The large blue section has loops for tools. There is also a lift out needle case.

The escutcheon is very elegantly formed by the front  mother-of-pearl ornament.

The inside if the lid has a pull-out attached “envelope” compartment. The outside is covered in the original silk and the inside in the original thick red paper.

The tray lifted out showing the original paper in the empty part of the box.
Detail of the finely printed paper.

Detail of the finely printed paper.

The top showing the figure of the wood and the mother-of-pearl ornament.

Detail of the ornament. Although executed in a very controlled manner and depicting stylised flora, the design is not symmetrical. It is as if the flowers are trying to undulate and grow out of the  constraints of the neoclassical tradition of the previous decades. It is Characteristic of the early years of the Victorian era.

The rosewood is incised to give effect to the compsition.