Description (Labels & Markings)
Paper label written in black ink adhered to base: 'A.1907.221 Trinket box. ?Louis XV. Border of the Loire, France, 1894. Mrs Bendall, 1907.'
Event Date
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Accession register for 1907.834: 'A flat oval trinket box of ivory with silver mounts. The lid bears a painted figure design.'
Event Date 1907
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Related Documents)
See 'Report on Collections Research and Cataloguing Project on Post Medieval 'To Be Disposed Of' Material' by David Kay in the archive (Doc.474) for background information.
Event Date 2019
Author: Heather Donoghue

Context (Production / use)
The accession register suggests this object dates from Louis XV's reign (1715-1774).
Event Date 13/10/2022
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Ivory, oval trinket box now in four parts. Plain ivory base; sides formed from thin oval band with silver mounts and a thick oval band with lip, decorated with motif in green pigment with repeated central circles. Lid decorated on top with three figures, central woman with a woman to her left passing a note to another figure peeping around a wall on the right; blue and green pigments.
Event Date 22/1/2024
Author: Heather Donoghue