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Description:
Ref: 872WB      http://hygra.com/box/872WB 

Regency rosewood writing box with brass inlay to the top and front depicting stylized flora, and countersunk brass carrying handles to the sides. The box opens to a sloping writing surface still retaining is original gold embossed leather framed with a cross-banding of tulipwood. There are  compartments for holding paper under the writing surfaces. There are compartments for pens and inkwells. The inkwells are reproduction. Circa 1825. 

Origin: UK;  Circa: 1825; Materials: Rosewood with brass inlay .

Size: 35.3 cm wide by 23.3 cm by 11 cm:  14 inches wide by  9.2 inches by  4.3 inches.

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

Keywords: Hygra.com, Antique box, writing box, writing desk, lap desk, brass inlay, Regency

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This form of inlay was inspired by French Boulle work, but was evolved into a more robust genre by English cabinet makers such as George Bullock, who was one of the Prince Regent’s/George IV favourites. The design of the inlay is symmetrical and follows neoclassical tradition, the flora being stylised and incorporating such motifs as the palmette, the acanthus and a central urn. A hint of naturalism creeps in with the flowers and the wavy movement, suggesting the next period of more life-like development. The colour and lustre of the brass contrasts nicely with the colour of the rosewood. Thomas Hope, the distinguished designer, (1807 ‘Household Furniture and Interior Decoration executed from Designs by Thomas Hope’) advocated metal inlay on dark wood ‘….that distinctness and contrast of outline, that opposition of plain and enriched parts…..’

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The gold embossed leather writing surface is original and framed with a cross banding of tulipwood.

There are the usual compartments for writing  accessories with two reproduction screw-top inkwells.

The pen tray is lidded and has a turned bone handle to the center as well as an inlaid brass line.

There are  compartments for holding paper under the writing surfaces.

There are compartments for pens and inkwells. The inkwells are reproduction.

Detail of the inlay in the center of the top.

The box opens to a sloping writing surface still retaining is original gold embossed leather framed with a cross-banding of tulipwood. There are  compartments for holding paper under the writing surfaces.

countersunk brass carrying handles to the sides.

The underside is covered with its original green baize. 

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