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Elizabethan Medical Box

Unknown Artist

Art Funded
2000
Dimensions
22 x 28 cm
Vendor
Julian Homer (through Christie's)
Rounded parquetry lid, body w/ parquetry bans in 'Nonsuch Style'.

Hinged lid, underside lined armorial lining paper & silk braids latticed w/ brass tacks. 15 compartments various sizes, 3 boxwood containers. 9 drawers w/ silk pull handles. 4 ball feet.

Provenance

Colonel & Mrs Graham Rees-Mogg 1926-1948; Brunell's auctioneers; Julian Homer, 1980.

Oak with bog oak and holly parquetry decoration

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Art we’ve helped buy at Shakespeare's Family Homes

William Shakespeare in the Globe
 Acquired 2002
William Shakespeare Between Tragedy and Comedy
 Acquired 1999
Elizabethan Medical Box
 Acquired 2000

William Shakespeare Between Tragedy and Comedy by Richard Westall is on display in Shakespeare's Birthplace. Painted in 1825 in the Neoclassical style, it portrays the playwright at the centre of a dynamic struggle between the black-clad severity of Tragedy and the softer appeal of Comedy.

A late-16th-century medical box, also at Shakespeare's Birthplace, reflects the craftsmanship of the period. The lid and sides are patterned in parquetry, and the silk braid hinges are still intact.

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