A VICTORIAN COROMANDEL AND GILT BRASS MOUNTED JEWELLERY BOX

A VICTORIAN COROMANDEL AND GILT BRASS MOUNTED JEWELLERY BOX

BY HOWELL, JAMES & CO., REGENT STREET, LONDON, C.1860

with Gothic style pierced mounts engraved with scrolling foliate decoration, the hinged cover enclosing a cream, watered silk lined interior with the retailer's plaque between the hinges

15.5cm high, 31cm wide, 22.2cm deep

Provenance

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 partnership of Howell and James was founded in 1819, they were originally silk merchants and retail jewellers. They exhibited at the Great Exhibition in 1851 and the International Exhibition of 1862 to great acclaim. On the back of the successful exhibitions they opened further display rooms at their premises on Regent Streey in 1860. In 1884 the business was dissolved and it became a limited company and finally closed in 1911.