A French Boulle Marquetry and Brass Mounted Kingwood Writing Slope Late 19th Century opening to a velvet-lined writing surface. Height 4 x width 14 x depth 11 inches. Provenance: Antique Boxes at the Sign of the Hygra, London Literature: Clarke and O'Kelley, Antique Boxes, Tea Caddies and Society, (New York: Schiffer Publishing, 2003), p. 279, fig. 500 Property from the Collection of Mary Russell, Chicago, Illinois