Mountain / Void Box at Freelands

Mountain / Void Box at Freelands

Description: box, coated with gold and wax and tied with cord and metal ring.

8 x 5 x 4 cm

Mountain/Void boxes were made to be worn on the person to contain ‘the void within the mountain’. Layered gold was concealed beneath wax. This wax layer was often scraped back to reveal splinters of gold beneath and re-covered as required.

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