SB488: A sewing box of impressive form, decoration and workmanship, the interior lined with red silk and fully fitted with mother of pearl sewing tools, Circa 1825.

The box is veneered in saw-cut dark coromandel and inlaid in mother of pearl.
The box is shaped in the form favoured in the early part of the 19th century, the second phase of neoclassicism, which drew its references from the architectural traditions of Egypt and the near Middle East. The structure is carefully constructed, combining flat and tapering surfaces brought harmoniously together with cavetto moulding. The roundness of the moulding softens the lines and separates the decoration into two distinctive compositions.
The box stands on turned and carved feet which support a base edged in gadrooning. There is also gadrooning of an unusual pattern framing the top part of the box.