Superb antique Victorian travelling jewellery chest in richly figured mahogany with fine mother of pearl inlay throughoutAlso could be referred to as a collectors cabinetCirca 1880Designed as a portable dressing or jewellery case, combining elegance with practical storageOf rectangular form with domed, stepped top profusely inlaid with delicate foliate and scroll motifs in shimmering mother of pearlThe front with twin doors, each panel centred with finely executed mother of pearl birds amongst trailing foliageFurther decorated with boxwood stringing and circular mother of pearl roundels framing the faC''adeThe doors open to reveal a beautifully fitted interiorLined in the original turquoise paper to the lid interior, offering a striking and unusual colour contrastThe centre with a lift-up compartment above a bank of three graduated drawersDrawers retaining their original turned handles and neatly finished interiors for organising jewellery and pe...