A 17TH CENTURY SAILOR'S TREEN OAK CHIP CARVED BOX

A 17TH CENTURY SAILOR'S TREEN OAK CHIP CARVED BOX

PROBABLY WELSH, DATED '1653'

all over relief carved with rondels of various designs, the hinged lid revealing a paper lined interior, the underside of the lid carved with a love heart, with initials and a date 'G M 1653', with an applied handwritten note 'This box made and carved with a penknife by Gideon Meggerson when a sailor on board of ship. Gill was related to my grandmother Lydia Richards, who gave me the box. G. M. left ...to....F. Pearce'

10cm high, 29cm wide, 18cm deep

Provenance

'A Lifetime of Collecting' - The Property of a Gentleman.