An Early Victorian Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Amboyna and Burlwood Writing Slope English, Circa 1840 opening to a gilt-tooled leather writing surface. Height 6 x width 10 x depth 9 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. 281, fig. 504 Property from the Collection of Mary Russell, Chicago, Illinois