WORKBOX
English – dated 1687
Wood, the top and the sides of yellow silk decorated with designs in cut-paper work, painted and gilded, of stylised floral forms; on the top in the middle a panel filled with shells and a paper bird, surmounted by a bird in cut paper and flanked by the initials MW (for Mary Wright) and the date 1687. Lined in mauve silk, and partitions; inside the lid a looking-glass.