Tunbridge Ware – Pin Hinged Trinket Box with Isometric Cube Parquetry c1860

Description

Heading : Tunbridge Ware – Pin Hinged Trinket Box with Isometric Cube Parquetry 
Date : c1860
Period : Victorian
Origin : Tunbridge Wells; England
Decoration : box lid with isomeric cube pattern (including palmyra and green oak tesserae) set within continuous and banded key-line stringing; a further band of five square geometric banding within continuous key-lines; to the ‘frame edge’ of the box top. in which the lid fits. there is some unusually large banded key-line stringing. made up of three colours. The lid also has a small round handle affixed; the four external sides of the box are plain; lined inside with a typical Edmund Nye patterned paper. and to the bottom with a red. textured material of the same provenance
Size :  11.3 x 7.7 x 3.7 cm
Condition : Excellent; no missing tesserae. little or no damage to the box; lining paper good; base paper slightly worn
Restoration : none
Weight :  88 grams 

Notes : See above – from the Edmund Nye/Thomas Barton venture. probably made under the name of the former