SOLD Early 19th Century Domed Prisoner of War Straw Work Box chinese enamel with some residue around the

with some residue around the perimeter on the reverse

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

seems to have been a model student

and one thin split in the wood on on side of his hair and hat

with more than enough hand-carved wooden pegs to play (plus a few more of another sort that fit the holes as well

SOLD Early 19th Century Domed Prisoner of War Straw Work Box chinese enamel with some residue around theIt 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