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Description: | Box or model dowry chest. Rectangular, stained purple, varnished with a decoration of thin copper wire in circles and straight lines of twisted wire; lined with red plush. A rectangular box body with a lid and plinth. The flat lid overhangs the body. The plinth is larger in plan than the body and has a base carved in scallops. The untreated wood base is of pale yellow, newish wood. The wire decoration is only weakly attached. To go with the model tent 1999.12 if used as a dowry chest. It could equally be a jewellery box. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | chests plastic wood varnish metal Uzbek | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-2537 |
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