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