Tunbridge Ware Stationery Box Eridge Castle c1850

Description

Heading : Tunbridge ware stationery box
Date : c1850
Period : Victoria
Origin : Tunbridge Wells. Kent
Decoration : Central mosic of Eridge Castle within a naturalistic border. Front panels decorated with a moth and chainlink border. Internally painted blood red.
Size :  21.8cm width. 11.6cm depth. 13.4cm height
Condition : A nuymber of areas of lifting and splitting in the veneers but they do not detract. Working lock and key
Restoration : Interior repainted
Weight :  599 grams

The banding is typical of Edmund Nye’s work as is the moth. This was in all likelihood made by Nye with Thomas Barton as his foreman. The image of Eridge Castle itself is not a useful identifier. virtually all Tunbridge ware makers utilised a version of it.