A Victorian papier mache and Abalone shell sewing box, 19th century, the rectangular serpentine box with a domed lid, decorated with abalone shell tile and chain borders and a shell and enamel painted floral vignette, shell and gilt posies to the front, the interior with a compartmentalised tray covered in later Florentine paper, with various sewing sundries, height 14 cm, length 28 cm, width 21.5 cm