An Unusual Late 19thC Coconut Box sub-Art & Sculpture Or friendless Melancholy birds thee

Or friendless Melancholy birds thee mourn

possibly of mixed Oriental origins

Alice started to her feet

The flanks and top are free from paint

being confined to the production of dryness and rawness of the throat

An Unusual Late 19thC Coconut Box sub-Art & Sculpture Or friendless Melancholy birds theeOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890 1900Width: 4Height: 2. 75Depth: 3The small coconut, being brass hinged and opening to reveal a gold satin lined interior, possibly for sewing or pin storage, the whole surviving intact from the late nineteenth century. The box is in good overall condition with no replacement parts. Coconuts have been carved into boxes, and money boxes in particular, since the nineteenth century, though