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T HE ROSE BOX
ENGLISH OR POSSIBLY GERMAN,
SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
ROSE TURNED CIRCULAR BOX
turned ivory
with an old paper label inscribed: “TUDOR EXHIBI TION,
LONDON.
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BRITISH COLLECTION, LO TS 1 – 15
EXHIBITED
London, Tudor Exhibition, 1898-1899;
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, on long term loan
(ref: LOAN:MET ANON.107-1968)
LITERATURE
A.
1889-90. Reg. No. 49. Cat
...”
3.5
by 5.2cm.,
1⅜ by 2in.
Way, ‘Notice of a Jeweled Ornament presented to Queen
Elizabeth by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury’,
Archaeological Journal, 19, 1862, pp.
145-158;
J.
Ferguson and R.
Davies, ‘A Survey of Tudor and Early
Jacobean Rose Turning’, The Society of Ornamental Turners
Bulletin no
83, p.
141
RELATED LITERATURE
M.
PROVENANCE
By tradition Archbishop Matthew Parker (1504-15 75);
by whom gifted to Queen Elizabeth I of England (1 533-1603)
[as described by Albert Way, ‘Notice of a Jeweled Ornament
presented to Queen Elizabeth by Matthew Parker, Archbishop
of Canterbury’, Archaeological Journal, 19, 1862, p.
145-158];
possibly acquired John Sharp, Archbishop of York (1645-1714);
thence by family descent
certainly by family descent to Thomas Barwick Llo yd Baker
(1807-1886);
thence by family descent to the present owners
Trusted, Baroque & Later Ivories, London, 2013
◉ £ 3,000-5,000
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