Lead-glazed earthenware, with screw lid. On the cover, a portrait of John Wilkes (1727-97). Incised inside the cover, Samuel Bawl, 1769. English (Leeds), 1768-9. Glaisher Bequest, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The box was probably a souvenir of the Middlesex elections of 1768 in which Wilkes
