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- Creator:
- Boulle, André-Charles, 1642-1732, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1700 and 1720]
- Call Number:
- sh-000161 On view in the Reading Room
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- three-dimensional form
- Abstract:
- Oak veneered with marquetry of ebony, rosewood, brass, copper, pewter, and tortoiseshell; with gilded mounts
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A remarkably fine Old Boule Coffer, a splendid specimen of this work, at an early period, the front elaborately finished with tortoiseshell ground work, massive or-molu mountings, masque handles, chased rosette corners, and lined with blue silk, on a pedestal en-suite, with richly worked boule back and stand for porcelaine., and Also available as a digital reproduction.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Coffer on stand] [realia].