Description (Physical description)
Peterborough Museum: 'Rectangular wooden box with hinged lift up lid with inset mirror. Has a lift-out tray with four lidded compartments and two glass ink pots. Underneath are two further compartments with hinged lids. Decorated inside and out with high-quality straw marquetry in golds, browns, greens and reds, depicting a harbour scene with buildings and a man and woman on the lid, and village scenes and flowers on the internal compartment lids and round the sides.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Production / use)
Made by French (Napoleonic) prisoners-of-war
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Oblong box. Covered with straw marquetry, fitted as a writing desk with ink bottles, lidded compartments, etc. The cover has, outside, an elaborate and well executed scene with ships, buildings, man and woman fishing, etc., mirror inside lid; smaller lids have similar though less elaborate scenes. Well preserved. Green and brown straws used
Event Date 1931
Author: maa

Loan (Other)
Peterborough Museum, 31/12/1947 to 31/10/2018, Long term loan, although some of it may have been on display.
Event Date 31/12/1947
Author: Imogen Gunn

Loan (Other)
Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, 01/05/2019 to 30/04/2019, Norman Cross collection
Event Date 1/5/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Loan (Long Term Gallery Loan)
Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, 16/11/2022 to 19/11/2025, Norman Cross collection
Event Date 16/11/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)