Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice 15cm Book Trinket Dish

Rings and earrings are easily left wherever there is a clear patch of furniture. This Pride & Prejudice trinket dish gives them a more deliberate resting place: an open ceramic book with two illustrated pages waiting beside a bed or on a dressing table. It is a volume that need not be read to prove useful.

The reader who could not keep reading

On the left-hand page, the Pride & Prejudice title sits among flowers, a country house, period figures and a carriage. On the right, two confident declarations praise the pleasures of books. They belong to Miss Bingley at Netherfield, where she takes up a volume largely because Mr Darcy is reading. Before long, she grows bored with it and turns her attention elsewhere. The grandeur of her reading pronouncements survives rather better than her concentration.

A place for the little things

Rest a few rings, earrings or a small bracelet on the gently curved stoneware pages when you take them off. The shallow, open form keeps everyday jewellery in view and within easy reach, rather than hidden in a box. On a bedside table, a desk or beside a dressing-table mirror, the dish is as recognisably an open book when empty as when it is holding something.

Mrs Hurst has an interest of her own

During that same evening at Netherfield, Mrs Hurst is occupied with her bracelets and rings. Her sister is busy praising books, though rather less absorbed in reading them. A ring resting beside those words recalls the two very different ways of spending an evening. For someone who returns to Austen for the smaller social observations as well as the famous exchanges, the joke needs no explanation.

Product Details

• Product type: Open-book trinket and jewellery dish
• Design: Pride & Prejudice title and reading quotations on illustrated pages
• Material: Stoneware ceramic
• Size: Approximately 15cm across
• Use: Open resting place for rings, earrings and other small trinkets

Does the book-shaped trinket dish open and close?

No. It is a fixed ceramic dish shaped like an open book, not a hinged jewellery box with a lid.

What can I keep in the Pride & Prejudice dish?

It is an open resting place for rings, earrings, a small bracelet and other suitable little belongings on a bedside or dressing table.

Who says the reading quotations in Pride & Prejudice?

Miss Bingley says them during the reading scene at Netherfield in Chapter 11, although she quickly grows bored with the book she is holding.

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