Title

Carved openwork box, 1500-c1860, (1881). Creator: W Tucker.

Caption

Carved openwork box, 1500-c1860, (1881). Etching of a small coffer of boxwood with engraved ivory fillets and wrought brass handle, made in France. Originally described as 16th century Venetian, this piece is a hybrid of gothic and classical ornament, most likely assembled from old pieces of wood in an Italian or French workshop at a much later date. From "The South Kensington Museum", a book of engraved illustrations, with descriptions, of the works of art in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (formerly known as the South Kensington Museum). [Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1881]

Date

1881

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F36_461

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

60,9Mb (2,8Mb) / 18,7in x 12,6in / 5617 x 3789 (300dpi)

Keywords

wood arts country French France book box museum decorative wooden boxes Renaissance location century pierced literature ivory artefact artifact 19th century B W boxwood Victoria and Albert Museum 16th century nineteenth century sixteenth century The Print Collector coffer Museum of Ornamental Art South Kensington Museum etching engraving Victoria & Albert Museum V&A V&A Museum Sampson Low The South Kensington Museum Marston W Tucker Tucker W Tucker W. W. Tucker