Card/Transcription No.: 594

594. SMALL BOX (? pair to No. 495)
(See No. 575)

POSITION:    
Lying on floor under a mass of miscellanea S.E. corner of chamber
(see photo 1149) (for lid see No. 575).
DIMENSIONS:  
L. 29.0; W. 26.0; H. (including cornice) 16.5; cents.

DESCRIPTION: 
A small wooden box; frame-work of ebony; panels of a dark red-brown wood framed with strips of ebony and ivory; torus-moulding
of ivory; pegs of framework of ivory; supporting shafts of bent
red-brown wood with corner pieces of ivory; caps to legs of
bronze (one of the four caps missing).
Interior divided into two (one space 27.7 x 16, the other 27.7 x
7.9 cents) by wood partition of dark red-brown wood with ebony
rail on top. 
The bottom of dark-red-brown wood (in three pieces).
Front an ivory knob; on both front and back ends two bronze
staples for (?) suspension.
Contents: nil.

REMARKS:     
Condition bad, only temporarily repaired with wax.
The lid (No. 575) was found separate.