Box, ink well, with sawn branch ornament and lid of mother-of-pearl with an image of the Birth of Christ. In the box three cans with lid, Silver box with mother-of-pearl lid. A round box with sawn tendrils ornament. Three cylindrical canisters with lids sink into this. The lid of the box or ink well has a representation in mother-of-pearl of the birth of Christ: Mary kneels with folded hands on a piece of grass. Joseph is standing opposite her. Between them lies the Christ child in a woven basket against a wall with two windows with the ox and the donkey. To the left of the stable a bastion with shepherds. Above this scene an angel with a spell band., Hendrik Jurrien Wolters, Zutphen, 1773, silver (metal), mother of pearl, h 4.9 cm × d 9.9 cm
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