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| Pounce Box Bronze Italy, Seventeenth Century The Victoria & Albert Museum |
A pounce box was a writing accessory with a perforated top for sprinkling sand or pounce - a powdered gum - that fixed the ink to paper.
This example is a bronze pounce box in the form of half of a shell which is being rolled by a frog. It was made in Italy at some point in the Seventeenth Century.
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