Tunbridge Inlaid Jewellery Chest with Drawer and Key
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Delightful mid 19th century Tunbridge jewellery chest, with a rectangular top decorated with central geometric panel, surrounded by various borders, set above a rectangular body, with one single panel door to the front, decorated with two central star medallions, surrounded by various inlaid borders, opening to reveal four single drawers, each handle with inlaid decoration, the whole raised on four brass ball feet, with key, 16.5 x 12.5 x 10.5 cm. Published: Antique Boxes: Inside and Out, colour plate 020
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- Inlay - Decorative patterns inserted into the main body of a piece of furniture, generally in wood of contrasting colour and grain, though brass, ivory, ebony, shell and sometimes horn have been used. Inlay may consist of a panel of well figured timber inset into a cabinet door front, geometric patterns, or complex and stylized designs of flowers, swags of foliage, fruits and other motifs. As a general rule, in pieces where the carcase is constructed in the solid, the inlay is relatively simple such as stringing, cross banding and herringbone banding. Where more elaborate and decorative work was required veneer was used. Inlay has been fashionable from at least the latter half of the 17th century, when a variety of elaborate forms were developed
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