INKWELL FROM A WRITING BOX, ONE OF TWO
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 full 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:
- INKWELL FROM A WRITING BOX, ONE OF TWO
- Made from:
- Enamel -- copper -- gilt copper
- Made in:
- ENGLAND: South Staffordshire, Bilston or Wednesbury
- Date made:
- ca. 1770
- Size:
- 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 15.172.3-4
- Class:
- ENAMEL
- Signature marks:
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973