Bleasdales Ltd
Lot 474
A complex walnut and paper decorated sewing and games, toilet and writing box, Vienna 1802, in a fine state of preservation.
For a video of this box with expert commentary, see: bit.ly/sewing_box
The rectangular walnut box inset with panels of pierced pressed paper on a duck egg blue ground, the lid with four bone roundels to the corners, oval steel escutcheon. The lower section of the box compartmentalised and lined with marble paper with five removable fitted boxes and a pair of glass inkwells with silver plated tops. Each box with insets of pressed and pierced paper comprising a rectangular box between the inkwells with a drawer containing a toothbrush and a tongue scraper, a further rectangular box with tray top fitted with bone lucet, bone bodkin and ivory salve box, over an end drawer containing a two part steel and brass sewing clamp with detachable pin cushion top, ivory thimble and a sliding platform with six numerical needle tubes. The front with three square boxes each with a drawer one containing six dice and a complete set of thirty two miniature playing cards, (4.2 x 2.5cms), another fitted with a tray with circular bone box labelled 'Rouge S.F.', and with miniature brush, the last containing a circular cardboard box labelled 'Denten Pulver'. The plinth incorporating a secret compartmentalised drawer with internal latch and the following fittings, sliding top pin box, bone tambour hook, folding rule in three parts, a slate over five printed cards, a steel corkscrew, an almanac in gilt decorated leather cover dated 1802, a pair of multiple thread winders, a pair of steel and gilt scissors, a pencil, a bone ribbon threader, a bone cylinder needle case, a matching cylinder container with fitted slate scribe, a single blade folding knife with tortoiseshell guards, and a set of steel knitting pins in original paper wrap. The lid fitted with two secret shallow drawers, one containing two bundles of envelopes in original paper wraps over a printed chart of clothing and accessories, the other a quill, sealing wax, a ruler and a compartment for wafers. The lid interior with central framed mirror within conforming paper panels, borders and medallions, 23 x 17 x 7.2cms. For a video of this box, see: https://bit.ly/sewing_box Ivory Self-declaration Submission Reference Number TAH2TWDF
