Tunbridgeware Wooden Box Turned Mahogany Wood Fixture the hard-paste porcelain surfaces are

the hard-paste porcelain surfaces are entirely hand-painted (peint main) across multiple firings to achieve its rich coloration and glassy

and brown floral pattern

The typography and printing are period-appropriate

A patina has settled into the recesses

Tunbridgeware Wooden Box Turned Mahogany Wood Fixture the hard-paste porcelain surfaces areWood inlaid with microscopic slivers of contrasting timber the hallmark of Tunbridgeware, a craft perfected in Tunbridge Wells, England in the nineteenth century. The lid depicts a geometric mosaic in warm and cool tones, a pattern composed of hundreds of thumbnail sized pieces fitted without adhesive. The sides are lined with a simpler stripe pattern. 3"L 3"W 1. 5"H