Lot N. 482
Necessaire for sewing in ebonized wicker
England, second half of the 19th century
made as a crown covered in purple embossed silk which opens as a corolla of four petals containing finely engraved and perforated sewing set with motifs of exotic taste, composed of two small needle boxes, one in the shape of a basket and the other of egg and twelve other small accessories including two umbrella-shaped needle holders and one in boxwood, some defects
h cm 34