Box wood

Box

  • Titles Box (Descriptive)
  • Medium wood
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Catherine Collins, 1964.103.34
  • Object Name box
  • Classification Containers

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Small match box of white jasper with dark blue dip and white relief decoration the box square with open top and with an extended back panel with central hole used to hang the box on the wall the box with central white jasper bas relief of Cupid as Oracle the God of Love depicted as Oracle divining the future for a young maiden and the back panel with white jasper bas relief of cupids and on either side a leafy stalk and above the hole a daisy
Oval medallion with profile portrait of Viscount St Albans Francis Bacon 1561 1626 Francis Bacon was an English philosopher lawyer and politician Born in London the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon He went to Trinity College Cambridge in 1573 and was called to be the Bar in 1582 He was elected member of Parliament in 1584 became Solicitor General in 1607 and Attorney General in 1613 He was raised to the peerage as Lord Verulam in 1618 and created Viscount St Albans in 1621 He is still today a famous philosopher known for his work the Novum Orgamum He was found guilty of taking bribes from litigants and imprisoned in the Tower and banished from Parliament and the great court