Price
£1450.00This object is eligible for a Certificate of BADA Provenance
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Porcupine Quill Work Box.
A fine, early sewing box decorated with pale porcupine quills on a sandalwood structure edged with engraved and lac-filled ivory bands.
The lid is lifted by a knob of carved buffalo horn in the form of a pomegranate, the swing handle, also from buffalo, is reeded.
Ceylon, Galle Region, circa 1830.
7 in x 9.25 in x h:5.5 in exc. the swing handle.
The ivory registered with DEFRA.
This object incorporates old ivory and has been registered with Defra
Stock number
3951The BADA Standard
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