Necessaire of gilded copper in relief decorated with rocailles, in which a pair of scissors, screw-in travel cutlery, screw, awl, curved needle, folding ruler, slate, toothpick / ear scoop, needle case and tweezers / file. Model: Flat, tapered, with lid, hinged on the narrow rear. The entire outside and the inside of the lid are plated. The inset part is made of wood in which sections for the various objects are sawn and finished with red copper on top. Octagonal, tapered holder of red copper with a loose lid on the wide side and a thread on the narrow side. Herein a smaller octagonal, tapered
Necessaire of gilded copper in relief decorated with rocailles, in which a pair of scissors, screw-in travel cutlery, screw, awl, curved needle, folding ruler, slate, toothpick / ear scoop, needle case and tweezers / file. Model: Flat, tapered, with lid, hinged on the narrow rear. The entire outside and the inside of the lid are plated. The inset part is made of wood in which sections for the various objects are sawn and finished with red copper on top. Octagonal, tapered holder of red copper with a loose lid on the wide side and a thread on the narrow side. Herein a smaller octagonal, tapered stem, which also has a loose lid on the broad side and a thread on the narrow side. The iron blade is screwed into the thicker handle of the large, rounded blade, while the thinner is intended for the two-toothed iron fork. Both stems can also be used for the iron screw, ditto awl and the small, pointed iron knife. Furthermore, a copper needle case consisting of three parts with a long lid topped by a ball. Furthermore, a double-folded, copper ruler, an ivory slate consisting of two leaves that are connected to each other with a copper rivet, a copper toothpick or ear spoon, an iron tweezers with a file at the end and an iron pair of scissors with copper eyes for the fingers. Decoration: throughout the necessaire an asymmetrical decoration of rocailles with scatter bouquets and flower garlands of roses and other flowers. The front and back are different. A flower garland on top of the lid. Rococo style., anonymous, Netherlands (possibly), c. 1750, necessaire, inzet met vakken, heften, afgerond lemmet, spits lemmet, vork, schroef, priem, kromme naald, naaldenkoker, tandenstoker/oorlepe, pincet/vijl, lineaal, lei, schaar, sawing, h cm × w 5 cm × d cm l cm × l 6 cm l cm l cm l cm l cm l cm l cm l 7 cm l cm l 15 cm l cm l 8 cm
Size: 2879px × 3001px
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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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