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Description: | Necessaires were used by Georgian travellers to hold the implements they might need on their journeys. A set of eating utensils was a particularly important item to carry, as inns - and even private hosts - rarely provided these. Other kits might hold grooming, sewing or writing instruments. This necessaire holds one scent bottle, a knife, tweezers, ear pick, bodkin, pencil holder and ivory tablets. The boxes that held these items were usually elaborately decorated. This slim, upright necessaire is painted in enamel colours. One side depicts a fortune teller; the other shows a woman drinking tea.
Upright necessaire of slim form showing The Fortune Teller on one side and a woman drinking tea on the other. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Travel Manufacturing industry Tea Black Country Decorative arts Metalworking industries Highlights Enamels Georgian period | Temporal: | 1760 - 1780
Georgian (1714-1837) | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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