Description:
JB430: Antique Dressing/ Jewelry box in amboina and ebony inlaid with mother of pearl depicting stylized birds and flora.   Inside the box has its associated mother of pearl cut glass and silver plated fittings and accessories some in a lift out tray.  These may be used separately if more room is needed for jewelry.  The box has a sprung  side drawer of dovetail construction  with three divisions fitted for jewelry.  Working lock and key. Circa 1830.

Origin: UK

Circa: 1830

Size: 30.5cm wide by 22.5 cm by 17cm:  9.9 inches wide by  8.9 inches by  6.7 inches.

Condition:

 Inside the box has fittings and accessories which may be used separately if more room is needed for jewelry. 

There is a document wallet in the lid. The ruched velvet is framed with gold embossed leather.

Amboina wood is the highly prized and beautifully mottled wood of a tree (genus Pterocarpus) of Amboina and the East Indies.

The mother of pearl inlay is particularly fine.

The top and front of the box have fielded main panels  in the highly figured burr wood amboina framed by ebony inlaid with mother of pearl depicting depicting stylized birds and flora.

  The mother of pearl inlay is strongly executed and is finely engraved. The top and front of the box have fielded main panels  in the highly figured burr wood amboina. 

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The box has a sprung  side drawer of dovetail construction  with three divisions fitted for jewelry.

There is a further space for jewelry under the liftout tray.

 Detail of the gold embossing.

Under the central tray with scissors hook and stiletto the compartment has a later velvet pad making it suitable for jewelry. 

 Detail of the engraved decoration of one the silver plated tops.

 The box has a selection of cut crystal bottles with silver plated tops.