19th Century Thuya Wood Casket & Walnut Tea Box
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Two boxes a Thuya wood casket and an inlaid walnut tea box, 19th century, a domed thuya casket with ebony stringing and brass strapwork to the ends, with finely engraved brass swing handles and the original purple silk lining, and; a fine tea box with a canted and sectioned lid, with outlined boxwood inlay and with cursive marquetry initials, the interior with two lidded compartments, height 16 cm, width 16.5 cm, depth 14 cm, and smaller
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- Boxwood - Boxwood is a hard, yellow coloured, close grained timber. In the 19th century it was often used for inlays, especially stringing, because of its contrasting colour to the darker timbers of the carcase. Stringing is the inlay of a narrow strip of veneer of a lighter colour, such as boxwood along or close to the edges of an object that has been veneered in a darker timber such as mahogany.
Because of its fine grain and resistnce to splitting or chipping it has also been used for treen, turnings, carvings and other small wooden items, such as chess pieces. - Ebony - Ebony is a close grained timber, black in colour. It has a fine texture which can be polished to a high gloss, making it suitable for venereering, inlay and stringing and its use as solid timber is resticted to small decorative items and ornamental decoration, such as chess pieces and musical instrument parts. The term "ebonised" means "faux ebony", timber that has been darkened during the polishing process to resemble ebony.
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