antique victorian coromandel stationery casket c1870

This is a stunning antique Victorian coromandel, Marquetry and gilt bronze mounted stationery box casket, circa 1870 in date.

Elegantly decorated with specimen marquetry with gilt bronze handles to each side, the rectangular casket has a sloped lid which opens to reveal a paper lined divided interior which will accommodate your letters & notes. The interior with maker's plaque for 'DIMMOCK, Norwich'This is a highly decorative piece which will make a statement placed on any period desk.
Condition:In really excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation.Dimensions in cm:Height 19 x Width 26 x Depth 16Dimensions in inches:Height 7 inches x Width 10 inches x Depth 6 inches
Our reference: A2122
Coromandelwoodor Calamanderwood
is a valuable wood fromIndia,Sri Lankaand South East Asia. It is of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes (or the other way about), very heavy and hard. It is also known asMacassarEbonyorvariegated ebonyand is closely related to genuineebony, but is obtained from different species in the same genus; one of these isDiospyrosquaesitaThwaites, from Sri Lanka. The nameCalamandercomes from the localsinhalesename, 'kalu-medhiriya', which means dark chamber; referring to the characteristic ebony black wood.Coromandelwood has been logged to extinction over the last 2 to 3 hundred years and is no longer available for new work in any quantity. Furniture incoromandelis so expensive and so well looked after that even recycling it is an unlikely source. A substitute,MacassarEbony, has similar characteristics and to the untrained eye is nearly the same but it lacks the depth ofcolourseen in genuineCoromandel.

Antiques.co.uk Ref: 2CNUNY69M

Width (cm):

26

Height (cm):

19

Depth (cm):

16

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