Portable writing box, English, unknown maker, early nineteenth century, dark stained wood, mahogany and brass

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Portable writing box, English, unknown maker, early nineteenth century, dark stained wood, mahogany and brass, XF30, XF28, ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London.

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Portable writing box, English, unknown maker, early nineteenth century, dark stained wood, mahogany and brass

Height: 7cm
Width: 29cm
Depth: 21.5cm

Museum number: XF31

Curatorial note

With a mahogany drawer, brass handle supporters and glass ink bottles, with turned wood handle on brass supporters; top of box with hinged compartments front and back to hold writing utensils and shallow recesses between these to hold ink wells; mahogany drawer in the base with missing knob; one of the three glass ink bottles, the central one with the cut glass stopper, is original to the box.

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: worksofart@soane.org.uk