This is a rectangular Tunbridge Ware rosewood cribbage box with flower inlays on the lid and all four sides.The box is in very good condition. The interior with its paper lining, sections for cards and a section for pegs with two white and two black bone cribbage pegs are included.
It measures
Dimensions: 25.5cm l x 9cm w x 5.5cm h
C1860/70
Tunbridge ware is a form of decoratively inlaid woodwork, typically in the form of boxes, that is characteristic of Tonbridge and the spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent in the 18th and 19th centuries. From the mid 1800s the decoration typically consists of a mosaic of many very small pieces of different coloured woods that form a pictorial vignette. Shaped rods and slivers of wood were first carefully glued together, then cut into many thin slices of identical pictorial veneer with a fine saw.
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