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Knife box, English, unknown maker, early nineteenth century, mahogany with inlay in box and ebony, XF28, ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photograph: Hugh Kelly
Knife box (modern)
Mahogany with boxwood and ebony inlay
Height: 36cm
Width: 22cm
Depth: 29cm
Width: 22cm
Depth: 29cm
Museum number: XF504
On display: Library-Dining Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
This knife-box is a replica of XF28 commissioned by Peter Thornton from Arthur Brett and Sons to visually re-create the pair which stood on the sideboard in the Library/Dining Room and appear in the 1822 views of the room. Although these are noted in the Furniture and Fittings inventory as having been sold by order of the Trustees after Soane’s death, it seems that one remained unsold.
Arthur Brett and Sons made this box solid rather than as a more expensive working replica and produced it at the same time as they made the replica sideboard .
Arthur Brett and Sons made this box solid rather than as a more expensive working replica and produced it at the same time as they made the replica sideboard .
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