TAA i.2.12a.1.43.recto

                                                                                                                    (43)

                                                Under blue faience/<glass> panels there is a highly siliceous

                                                material – i.e. between body of faience & wood of box.

                                                                 On some of the blue faience/<glass>  inlay (hands)

Box No 44                                               are designs in gesso gilt
Outside covered with gesso <on> gilt and with inlay: 

The gold in places is <fairly bright> yellow: in places dull is light 

red: in places blood red: colour irregularly distributed
Inlay. Blue <Panels> = faience/<Glass>: Dark blue & green oblongs = probably faience
          Red = glass Dark blue, red & green strips = glass

Small[?] Inlay Blue & Green = faience glass } faience/<Glass> panels with inlaid

                                                                                            decoration round 
Small Pieces of Inlay <(oblongs)> Like natural stone        edges.
The faience/<inlay> shows a surface deposit soluble in 

water – smells of glue when wet & froths
(? from gesso or from cement)
The red of the gold washes off with water
Brushed with dry brush.
Sponged with damp sponge & brushed faience/<inlay>

repeatedly with damp brush.
Stuck in loose inlay <& loose gold> with cellulose acetate 

cement
Some surface disintegration of the natural stone
Under the <gilt> gesso ornamentation on the blue faience 

panels there is coarsely woven fabric.
Some of <gilt> gesso design on faience on lid is less than 

1 mm thick
On one of the panels on the lid part of the blue

faience/<glass> has become black.