WRITING BOX WITH TWO INKWELLS

Creator(s): Unknown

On view in: Second Floor Hallway

About this object

Box: The background is white and each face is painted with a landscape in colors in a rococo frame with raised gilt scrolls. The scenes are as follows: a bridge in the foreground with country folk and cattle, and a large house at the left, a castle on the island in a river in the middle foreground and a village in the distance at the right. Front- a shepherd with sheep and a cow with a rolling countryside with rivers, trees, farmhouses, etc. Right-a smaller but similar scene, Back-a shepherd with sheep, a cow and a donkey in a rolling landscape with rocks, etc. Left-a shepherd with sheep and cow in foreground and another in the distance. The box is mounted in fine ormolu. The interior- is painted white with gilt copper partitions and two glass inkwells each with a landscape enameled in color on the cover.

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 × 13.8 × 7.9 cm (1 3/4 × 5 7/16 × 3 1/8 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

15.172.1

Class:

ENAMEL

Signature marks:

LABEL At the bottom a paper label with a zig-zag jagged edge and number "25" in the center; A rectangular paper label with double red borders reading "next to bottom shelf"

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973