SOLD Early 19th Century Domed Prisoner of War Straw Work Box chinese enamel in their original case with

in their original case with partial paper label remaining

I'd guess original to his making

The text that follows the image in Hood's book begins: "COME O ER THE SEA

with some residue around the perimeter on the reverse

SOLD Early 19th Century Domed Prisoner of War Straw Work Box chinese enamel in their original case withIt is only recently that I began to pay attention to straw work, also called straw marquetry, but I've become deeply enamored with it. Boxes of this sort are most often described as Napoleonic prisoner of war work, made in England in prisoner of war camps and prison ships, late 18th earlier 19th century, though they draw on centuries prior Far Eastern and European traditions, and continued to be made later. Not unlike tramp art a century later, they