AN EARLY VICTORIAN MOTHER OF PEARL WRITING BOX

AN EARLY VICTORIAN MOTHER OF PEARL WRITING BOX

'1838'

of rectangular form, the cover with an initialled cartouche 'C.de R', the interior with two silver-gilt mounted glass travelling inkwells with a maker's mark of 'T.D London 1838', of square form, with engraved decoration and screw-down covers

box: 19cm long

Provenance

Charlotte de Rothschild (1819-1884)

Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918) Halton House, Buckinghamshire

Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942)

Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009)

The Trustees of Exbury House

Catalogue Note

The initials are almost certainly for Charlotte von Rothschild, the wife of Baron Lionel de Rothschild and mother of Alfred. She was born in Frankfurt on the 13th June 1819 and married her first cousin Lionel de Rothschild on the 15th June 1836.