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Antique Blue Painted Marriage Box with Love Hearts
Ref: 3087
A delightful antique painted pine "trousseau" or marriage coffer from France.
There is much to like here, the unusual in-the-middle size, the "petit" feet it sits on - it is also very good condition with paired hearts standing for the betrothed and bearing the initials of Jesus and Mary hence indicating the promise of fidelity.
Of chief appeal perhaps is the painterly surface, the maker has used only three colours and the decoration is tastefully restrained, feathered, so the painted frontage is chiefly about the exquisite blue and the expressivity of the overall surface, an effect achieved via a combination of classic Gallic panache and the accidental effects of time.
France early 19th cent.
H: 45cm (17.7in)
W: 82cm (32.3in)
D: 45cm (17.7in)
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