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Spice container
Spice rack, tin-plate, open-fronted form with flat back with shaped top, and two sides with two shelves betweern, a pierced hole for suspension to the top of the rack and a small wire hook to one of the sides, on each shelf sit three cylindrical boxes with covers; the rear of the rack covered with a black japan, the rest of the rack and the exteriors of the boxes covered with a crimson japan, the front of each box inscribed in silver, to which the varnish has given a golden tinge, with the name of a spice: "CLOVES, GINGER, ALLSPICE, NUTMEG, MACE, CINNAMON".
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 50181
Creation/Production
Unknown
Acquisition
Gift
Given by Capt. Leonard Twiston Davies
Measurements
Height
(cm): 19.6
Length
(cm): 19.6
Width
(cm): 6.5
Height
(in): 7
Length
(in): 7
Width
(in): 2
Height
(cm): 5.7
diam
(cm): 5.7
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 2
Techniques
cut
decoration
Applied Art
welded
forming
Applied Art
japanned
decoration
Applied Art
silvered
decoration
Applied Art
Material
tin-plate
Location
In store
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