Sunday, April 29, 2012

Object of the Day, Museum Edition: An Italian Pounce Box, 17th C.





Pounce Box
Bronze
Italy, Seventeenth Century
The Victoria & Albert Museum





A pounce box was a writing accessory with a perforated top for sprinkling sand or pounce - a powdered gum - that fixed the ink to paper.

This example is a bronze pounce box in the form of half of a shell which is being rolled by a frog. It was made in Italy at some point in the Seventeenth Century.


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