Vintage Antique Victorian Ladies Work Sewing Box Brass Rosewood Boulle Cabinet

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Vintage Antique Victorian Ladies Work Sewing Box Brass Rosewood Boulle Cabinet:
$174.91

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Antique Victorian Period

Ladies Work Box

Brass Boulle Work Inlay Rosewood

Circa 1880

A lovely 19th century Victorian ladies sewing or work box. Made in rosewood with beautiful organic brass inlay boulle work decoration. The lid opens to a well appointed silk lined interior with compartments for needles, cotton etc within a lift out tray to lower compartment.

The box is in lovely aged antique condition as can be seen.

Would make a wonderful gift to the special lady in your life

Dimensions: 12\"(30.5cm) wide by 9\"(22.8cm) deep by 5\"(12.6cm) tall

André-Charles Boulle (11 November 1642 – 28 February 1732) was the French cabinetmaker who is generally considered to be the preeminent artist in the field of marquetry, even \"the most remarkable of all French cabinetmakers.His fame in marquetry led to his name being given to the fashion he perfected of inlaying brass and tortoiseshell, known as Boulle

The sewing box or work box was a much loved personal home accessory, where the lady it belonged to kept her embroidery tools and materials. As ladies of a certain social standing did not have many outlets for their artistic creativity, ability to compose and embroider designs on fabric was seen as a major accomplishment.

There are many references in literature to sewing, embroidery tools and boxes. In Jane Austen\'s Mansfield Park the heroine Fanny Price finds solace in \"the room...most dear to her\" where \" The table between the windows was covered with work-boxes and netting -boxes…\" Jane Austen herself had a large Chinese export lacquer box/table on stand complete with fitted tray, which can still be seen in her house in Chawton.

The stylistic development of the work box mirrors that of the tea caddy. The main difference is that Tea Caddies are on the whole taller and narrower. The shapes and decoration however follow the same pattern except that work boxes revert to rectangular shapes after the middle of the 19th century.

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