Wood and Ivory Box

A wooden travel casket inlaid with lighter wood and ivory. The sides, back and inner side of the fall-front decorated with a tiger chasing a deer in a setting of flowering trees and birds bordered by flowering stems and flower heads. The front and top decorated with hunting scenes on similar settings and with similar borders. Behind the fall-front, is a series of drawers: a long one at top, disguised as two, and a central deep drawer flanked on either side by two shallow ones. All but the central drawer decorated with affronted ducks in a flowering plant setting, and the central one with a flowering tree flanked by two ducks. The drawers and sides are all fitted with drop-handles.