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ANTIQUE BOXES
at the Sign of the Hygra
2 Middleton Road
London E8 4BL
Tel: 00 44 (0)20 7 254 7074
Fax: 00 44 (0) 870 1257669
email:
boxes@hygra.com
Antique Boxes in English Society

1760 -1900

by ANTIGONE

KNIFE or CUTLERY BOXES


KNIFE or CUTLERY BOXES

 
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Knife boxes were made for a very short period in the late 18th  Century and very beginning of the 19th century. The two main shapes are:

1.Deep boxes in variations of serpentine shapes with sloping lids, sometimes standing on feet or pediments.

2. Urn shaped boxes in polygonal or rounded shapes.

Both were fitted with a mahogany interior lid with cut out slots enabling the knives to stand up in place.

The deep boxes were of thick mahogany or occasionally of satinwood veneers. They were inlaid either in the designs popular on 18th century tea caddies or painted. Some fine examples depended on the figure of the wood and silver mounts for their aesthetic appeal.

The urn boxes were veneered in sections with fine stringing in between. The top " is kept up by a small spring which is fixed to the stem which supports the top;" according to George Hepplewhite.  The said stem was a central rod which culminated on the lid.

These boxes were superseded by large utilitarian cutlery boxes.



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