Work Box of Tunbridge-Ware - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 38920 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 999.99 FAMILY UNKNOWN | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Work Box of Tunbridge-Ware | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | United Kingdom | TDWG Region | United Kingdom | ||
| Parts Held | Work Box of Tunbridge-Ware | Geography Description | Great Britain, Tunbridge Wells | ||
| Uses | Work Box of Tunbridge-WareUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Miscellaneous | Related Items | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Royal Tunbridge Wells Ware, Made in England, Famous since 1629. Key in envelope inside. Tunbridge Ware was first made in the town of Tonbridge in Kent, by a family named Wise. They were wood turners by trade, and the articles they made beca, me so popular they extended their work to trinket and work boxes, etc. About 1720 they they started to inlay these with sections of wood joined crosswise. This method of inlaying was perfected by the Burrows brothers, circa 1820, whose designs included no, t only squares and diamonds, but buildings of local interest, landscape, flowers, animals and birds and later a style which resembled Berlin wool work. The discovery of the chalybeate springs (in 1606) around which the town of Tunbridge Wells has grown an, d the popularity of that place as a fashionable spa, brought the wood-workers of Tonbridge to Tunbridge Wells. The craft thrived as nearly every visitor to the town must have taken home with them a piece of Tunbridge Ware. At its peak of popularity during, the 19th century, Tunbridge Ware was manufactured in several workshops, one of the most productive was that of Edmund Nye, the donor of this collection. The last makers of the Ware (Boyce, Brown and Kemp) closed their work shop in 1936. About 160 differe, nt woods were used in the manufacture of the Ware, many of them milled locally. The 'green oak' which is such a feature of later Tunbridge Ware, is caused by the mycelium of a fungus Chlorosplenium aeruginascens, which invades a fallen limb of oak, and ha, s the curious effect of staining it green and at the same time strengthening it.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ADisplayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare tim, bers from EBC) | ||||