Very Fine Hand Carved Irish Bog Oak Twin Door Table Casket - Jewellery Cabinet, with domed shaped top and central rectangular tablet, mid Nineteenth Century.

Each hinged door with exquisite hand carvings of Muckross Abbey & Ross Castle in Killarney Co. Kerry, enclosing five original pull drawers, ending on a platform base with a continuous band of trailing shamrocks.

Condition: Nice firm condition with original hinges, few very old repairs here and there. 

Width: (at base) 9.25" (23.5cm). Height: 8" (20.5cm).  

Item Sold.

Shipped to Falls Church, Virginia, USA.

Irish Bog Oak wood is a rare timber which is excavated from deep underground, usually as a by-product of turf cutting, or when bogland is drained for agricultural use. The wood varies in age, usually ranging between 2,000 and 6,000 years old, The wood has been preserved due to the unique conditions of the Turf bogs in Ireland which waterlog the wood and keep it free from oxygen and sunlight which would cause it to decay. The chemistry of the Bog also reacts with the wood and transforms it's colour. Bog Oak is usually jet black, but occasionally a very dark brown. Throughout the Nineteenth Century and later many decorative items such as small furniture, Writing Slopes Book Slides and Ladies Jewellery, always with distinctive hand carved Irish subjects. This is a very nice item in superb condition.