Victorian Tunbridge Ware bevelled casket jewellery box with geometric marquetry

Victorian Tunbridge Ware box inlaid with intricate geometric bands. The bevelled body is panelled with burr walnut and the marquetry is done with cross banded tulipwood, boxwood and kingwood. The lid has a vacant mother-of-pearl cartouche trimmed with a hexagonal border; the same design is repeated around the key escutcheon.

Wonderful example of this English artform with warm patina and beautiful grain to the wood.

Made in England, c. 1870’s.

1096 g

15 x 27.5 x 20 cm overall
9.8 x 25 x 17.7 cm inside

Good antique condition. Surface cracks and crazing to the wood; small losses to veneer, mostly to the left corner on the back of the lid; small losses to mother-of-pearl on lid; the keyhole mother-of-pearl is lacking; crack to lid; crack to base that is not visible underneath the felt, but visible from the inside.