Edmond Burke box

Ivory, red wax, ormolu, blued steel

England

Circa 1790

The surface of this box is unadorned apart from an oval wax medallion of the statesman Edmund Burke, after the 1791 portrait by Thomas R. Poole. The interior is equally as fine, with an engraved ormolu hinges and blued steel screws holding. A small note folded inside reveals that this once belonged to Burke himself.

• Family of Edmund Burke

• Private Collection

• Marion Deahar