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Antique Boxes in English Society
1760 -1900
by ANTIGONE
WRITING BOXES

 
A rosewood writing slope of c 1790.  The rosewood is framed with sycamore with penwork decoration of stylised foliage. The centre panel has a hand tinted print of classical inspiration framed in gold leaf and pen and ink decoration.