Tunbridge Ware – A Robert Vorley Small Isometric Cube Pattern Ring Box 2001

Description

Heading : Tunbridge Ware – A Robert Vorley Small Isometric Cube Pattern Ring Box
Date : 2001
Period : early 21st century
Origin : Essex. England
Decoration : two-part box with lift-off lid; the top of the lid with miniature isometric cubes; a three-square geometric band around the four sides of the base. with banded key-line stringing around the lid; gold textured satin lining; made from over 200 individual tesserae
Size : 4.98 cm x 3.3 x 4.0 cm 
Condition : As new
Restoration : none
Weight : 49 grams

Notes : this particular box is made from decorative elements consisting of twelve different woods set in to rosewood veneers; signed and dated to the bottom – ROBERT VORLEY 2001.

Mr Robert Vorley is the only current exponent of Tunbridge Ware worthy of the name. and worked with absolutely authentic. period methods of manufacture. Now in to his eighties. the work of this former architectural model-maker will never be surpassed. This is a stunning piece. with the tiles used to make the miniature cubes having been chosen for their very fine grain patterns.