Box cover

Description

Circular beech box cover inscribed, 'Desert Plates used at an Intertainment given by George Bruce of Carnock to King Iames 6': English, 1570 - 1620

Museum reference

K.1999.528 B

Collection

Decorative and Applied Art

Object name

Box cover

Production information

England, Northern Europe

Date

1570 - 1620

Materials

Beech

Physical description

Beech; circular

Associations

Sir George Bruce of Carnock
James VI and I, King of Scotland, England and Ireland, 1566 - 1625
James Boswell
Union of the Crowns
Auchinleck (Auchinleck House), Ayrshire, Scotland, Northern Europe
Malahide Castle

References

A.H. Churchman, Some Minor Art, 1894

J.Y. Akerman, Archaeologia, Vol. xxxiv (1851), pp. 225 - 230

Owen Evans-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, 1932