Writing Box
It is fitted with a glass ink-pot and a glass bottle, both having brass repousse covers, an onyx seal mounted in brass, two steal erasing blades and a steel cutting blade for fitting into a gold holder.
Object details
| Object type | |
| Parts | This object consists of 11 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Enamel on copper, wood, shagreen, brass, glass, onyx, steel |
| Brief description | Writing box of wood covered with green shagreen and decorated with three plaques of painted enamel on copper mounted in brass. |
| Physical description | It is fitted with a glass ink-pot and a glass bottle, both having brass repousse covers, an onyx seal mounted in brass, two steal erasing blades and a steel cutting blade for fitting into a gold holder. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Myles Burton Kennedy, Esq. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.415:1 to 11-1914 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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