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A Victorian lacquered papier mache writing slope
of rectangular form, the sloping hinged cover with serpentine shaped edge, black ground with gilt-heightened and mother-of-pearl inset floral decoration about an inset painting of a harbour scene on mother-of-pearl ground, partitioned interior with velvet-lined slope and one inset grass mounted glass inkwell, distressed -- 12.7/8in. (32.8cm.) wide
of rectangular form, the sloping hinged cover with serpentine shaped edge, black ground with gilt-heightened and mother-of-pearl inset floral decoration about an inset painting of a harbour scene on mother-of-pearl ground, partitioned interior with velvet-lined slope and one inset grass mounted glass inkwell, distressed -- 12.7/8in. (32.8cm.) wide