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19th Century Tunbridge White Ware Box
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19th Century Tunbridge White Ware Box

19th century
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A very interesting small 19th Century Tunbridge White Ware box illustrated with a picture of the Chain Pier in Brighton.

The Chain Pier was opened on 25th November 1823 and was destroyed by a storm in December 1896. Designed by Captain Samuel Brown RN.

H 2.5 cm

Diameter 5.5 cm

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Digby Antiques (Wiltshire) has dated this Tunbridge Ware Trinket Box to the 19th Century.

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A very interesting small 19th Century Tunbridge White Ware box illustrated with a picture of the Chain Pier in Brighton.

The Chain Pier was opened on 25th November 1823 and was destroyed by a storm in December 1896. Designed by Captain Samuel Brown RN.

H 2.5 cm

Diameter 5.5 cm

Date of Manufacture

Digby Antiques (Wiltshire) has dated this Tunbridge Ware Trinket Box to the 19th Century.

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Digby Antiques (Wiltshire)
Digby Antiques (Wiltshire)
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A circular 19th-century turned wooden box featuring a lid with a topographical print of the Brighton Chain Pier framed by a sawtooth border.
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Archive I A circular 19th-century turned wooden box featuring a lid with a topographical print of the Brighton Chain Pier framed by a sawtooth border.

19th Century Tunbridge White Ware Box

Archive II A circular 19th-century turned wooden box featuring a lid with a topographical print of the Brighton Chain Pier framed by a sawtooth border. View II
Archive III A circular 19th-century turned wooden box featuring a lid with a topographical print of the Brighton Chain Pier framed by a sawtooth border. View III
Archive IV A circular 19th-century turned wooden box featuring a lid with a topographical print of the Brighton Chain Pier framed by a sawtooth border. View IV
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Digby Antiques (Wiltshire)

Digby Antiques (Wiltshire)
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A circular 19th-century turned wooden box featuring a lid with a topographical print of the Brighton Chain Pier framed by a sawtooth border.
19th Century Tunbridge White Ware box
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A circular 19th-century turned wooden box featuring a lid with a topographical print of the Brighton Chain Pier framed by a sawtooth border.
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  • ObjectTrinket Boxes
  • Period19th century
  • StyleRegency
  • MaterialWood, Paper, Varnish
  • ColourWarm Brown
  • MotifsTurned wood, Topographical print, Sawtooth border, Chain Pier illustration

This small 19th-century Regency Tunbridge White Ware trinket box takes a circular turned wooden form finished with a clear varnish. The lid displays a topographical print titled "Chain Pier" depicting the Brighton Chain Pier alongside a building-lined shoreline, figures, and boats, framed within a dark brown sawtooth border and repeated concentric banding. Surface wear includes speckling, spotting, and ageing across the paper lid print, while the wooden body exhibits warm brown tones with visible grain and minor edge scuffs. The piece measures H 2.5 cm and Diameter 5.5 cm. Positioned on a bedside table within an English country house setting, the box serves as a functional receptacle for storing small daily items such as rings, cufflinks, or pins. Its compact footprint requires minimal surface area, allowing it to sit neatly alongside lamps, books, or trays while offering a historic decorative accent to the bedroom interior.

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Tunbridge White Ware refers to turned wooden items produced predominantly in Kent during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, featuring applied topographical engravings or botanical prints.

These boxes were crafted from turned local hardwoods, such as sycamore or beech, sealed with varnish, and decorated with hand-coloured copperplate paper prints.

Authentic pieces feature turned timber construction, historical print illustrations, characteristic geometric or sawtooth borders, and signs of natural age-related varnish darkening.

Place the box on a bedside table, desk, or tray alongside stacked books and brass decorative objects to create a layered vintage vignette.

Keep the item away from direct sunlight and damp environments, dust gently with a dry microfibre cloth, and avoid liquid polishes that could damage the delicate paper print.
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