Anglo Indian Porcupine Quill Box with Elephant Inlay
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Anglo Indian porcupine quill box, of casket form, featuring inset rows of repeating porcupine quills in an ebony and bone inlay frame, opening to reveal a purple velvet interior with inner plaque to cover reading 'Galle' below a depiction of an elephant, 9 cm x 21 cm x 16 cm
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- 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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