Box and lid (W63)

Catalogue Record

Collection

Maker

David Pye

Title

Box and lid

Made in

Tidebrook

Date

1970

Description

Round East African blackwood box with a light patch, and a kingwood screw-on lid, with both the box and cover carved with flutes.

Materials and techniques

Main body and screw on lid carved with radiating flutes, cut by a graver directed by a lever. (Technique invented 1976 by the maker).

Dimensions

height:  6.5cm
diameter:  7cm

Object number

W63

Category