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