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Description: | Marquetry work box inlaid with Australian and New Zealand woods. The lid has an oval eight-pointed star/ compass rose at centre with border of chevrons, all in inlaid woods. Inside the lid the box has another star in a diamond surround and inlaid border. There is a fitted tray with a central purple-covered pin cushion and eleven lidded compartments with inlaid dot designs at the corners. Made by the ship's carpenter of HMS 'Corinth' for the wife of the master - Captain William Thomas Littler.
Decoration: marquetry. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | work boxes Corinth 1870 Littler William Thomas | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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