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WRITING BOX WITH TWO INKWELLS

Creator(s): Unknown

On view in: Second Floor Hallway


About this object

The background is white. On the cover and four sides are landscapes painted in colors with raised gilt scroll frames. The scenes are as follows: on the cover-at the left an urn on a pedestal, a ruin and next a man walking beside a woman riding a donkey and with a cow and a dog. A shepherd and sheep at the right with a river, bridge and castle in the background. Front-a continuous landscape with many figures and in the background churches, ruins, statues, a harbor, etc. Right side: a landscape with a monastery on a hilltop. Back-a continuous landscape with figures in the foreground and buildings and a harbor in the distance. The monastery at the left is the same as the one painted on the right end. Left side- a landscape with figures, a castle, a river and a ruined tower. The interior is painted white with gilt copper partitions and two glass inkwells each with a cover with a landscape in enamel.

Object name:
WRITING BOX WITH TWO INKWELLS
Made from:
Enamel -- copper -- gilt copper
Made in:
ENGLAND: South Staffordshire, Bilston or Wednesbury
Date made:
ca. 1770
Size:
4.4 × 15.1 × 7.9 cm (1 3/4 × 5 15/16 × 3 1/8 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
15.171.1
Class:
ENAMEL
Signature marks:
LABEL At the bottom a paper label with a zig-zag border and with number "26" in the center A rectangular paper label with double red borders reading "next to bottom shelf"
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973