Salvaged Timber and Relics - English Poetry and Literature -...

Salvaged Timber and Relics - English Poetry and Literature - a 19th century mulberry table casket, the hinged cover with sliding compartment and enclosing a silver coloured metal plaque inscribed 'This Casket Was Made From a Portion of the Mulberry Tree Which Stood in the Garden of the Poet Milton's House, A Part of the Site Upon Which Now Stands Queen Anne's Mansions, St James Park, S.W [London]', the hinged cover carved with a profile portrait of John Milton (1608 - 1674), on a ground of scrolling foliage, turned and fluted pillars to angles, gadrooned skirted base, bracket feet, 30cm wide, c.1873 Poet John Milton (1608 - 1674) moved to the 'pretty garden house in Petty-France' adjoining St James Park in 1651, living there throughout the Commonwealth period and thus beginning the writing of Paradise Lost during his tenure. Later owned by Jeremy Bentham, the property, with its famed black mulberry tree in the garden (one of a group planted by King James I in a misguided attempt to establish an English silk industry) was demolished in 1873 to build Queen Anne's Mansions. The brainchild of Henry Alers Hankey, this highly controversial building was Britain's first residential high-rise. Badly damaged by bombing in World War II, the proto-skyscraper was itself demolished in 1973.

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