Heading : Tunbridge Ware - A Hinged Square Box with Isometric Cube Patterns - 1989
Date : 1989
Period : Late 20th century
Origin : Essex, England
Decoration : hinged lid construction; five faces (not the underside) covered with veneer pattern of isometric cubes set within continuous and banded key-line stringing; lined with fawn-coloured soft needle cord
Size : 8.6cm x 8.9cm x 8.9cm
Condition : Virtually as new; one or two tiny bumps of little or no significance
Restoration : tiny fill to one nicked tessera, from manufacture
Weight : 226 grams

Note : This particular box is made from no fewer than twenty one different types of wood within narrow ebony reserves; constructed with 1000 individual  veneer pieces