Nécessaire

German, probably Augsburg

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Fashionable in eighteenth-century Europe were so-called nécessaires de poche (pocket necessaries)—small caskets made of precious materials and fitted with tiny implements for grooming, writing, or sewing. Beneath a mirror-lined cover, the interior of this casket contains an inkwell and sand shaker, pen, pencil, clasp knife, cut-glass seal, snuff spoon, ear spoon, bodkin, tweezers, file, two-leaved ivory tablet, and a patch box.

Nécessaire, Wood veneered with tortoiseshell and gold; implements of glass, ivory, and gold , German, probably Augsburg

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Nécessaire, Wood veneered with tortoiseshell and gold; implements of glass, ivory, and gold , German, probably Augsburg
Nécessaire, Wood veneered with tortoiseshell and gold; implements of glass, ivory, and gold , German, probably Augsburg
Nécessaire, Wood veneered with tortoiseshell and gold; implements of glass, ivory, and gold , German, probably Augsburg
Nécessaire, Wood veneered with tortoiseshell and gold; implements of glass, ivory, and gold , German, probably Augsburg

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