The hinged top enclosing a compartmented interior with pin-cushions, the top inlaid with pewter stringing within ivory, ebony and rosewood chequer banding, centred by a specimen wood patera including ivory, calamander, palmwood, tamarind-wood and various rosewoods
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high; 21 in. (53 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep