Victorian Lady's Traveling Box with Scent Containers and Secret Drawer
Victorian lady's travelling box with a Mother of pearl inlaid keyhole & panel monogrammed initialled 'MB'. the inside lid has a green crushed velvet spring mechanism. Inside is a pull out compartment containing three rectangular glass scent containers with silver plated pierced lids, two circular containers with silver plated lids, two glass cut scent bottles, & a pull out green velvet holder containing a mother of pearl pocket knife, nail file, boot hook & two corkscrews. Behind is five compartments for five various sized containers with silver plated lids, behind is a button for a front spring mechanism 'Secret Drawer'. Wityh a key. Condition: good to fair, split through the timber on the lid, minor age related wear. Dimensions 12.01 in. x 9.06 in. x 6.89 in.
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- Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.
The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 – 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910. - Mother-Of-Pearl - Mother-of-pearl, technical name "nacre", is the inner layer of a sea shell. The iridescent colours and strength of this material were widely used in the nineteenth century as an inlay in jewellery, furniture, (especially papier mache furniture) and musical instruments.
In the early 1900s it was used to make pearl buttons. Mother-of-pearl is a soft material that is easily cut or engraved.
Nowadays it is a by-product of the oyster, freshwater pearl mussel and abalone industries.
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