Tunbridge Ware – A Small Square Trinket Box with Isometric Cube Parquetry c1890

Description

Heading : Tunbridge Ware – A Small Square Trinket Box with Isometric Cube Parquetry 
Date : c1890
Period : Victorian
Origin : Tunbridge Wells; England
Decoration : Square. with a lift-off lid featuring an isometric cube pattern set within two continuous and one banded. extended piece of keyline stringing; sides of the box are plain; no lining
Size : 6.3 x 6.4 x 3.0 cm

Condition : Excellent; no losses. no damage; a good. clean example with just a small gouge to one corner
Restoration : None
Weight :  38 grams

Notes : Little to go on with regard to identification (other than the unusual extended. banded keyline); the general form would seem to be in the style of Boyce. Brown & Kemp. working at the end of the 19th century. A nice example of isometric cubes. with two green-oak tiles and one of ‘spotted’ palmyra.