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Blue and Red Dowry with Tulips
Ref: 1733
This antique pine coffer or dowry box comes from Transylvania, from a group of villages where a Hungarian ethnic group lived who decorated their important furniture with tulips. Their style of folk painting is as the completely original and untouched front panel of this box shows is highly accomplished. It is amongst the most celebrated by ethnographers and well represented in museum collections and books on the subject of Central and Eastern European folk art. The interior of the box indicates that this is a marriage chest from the 1870s. Suitable as coffee table, general storage or for collector.
Erdely c.1870
H: 46cm (18.1in)
W: 103cm (40.6in)
D: 54cm (21.3in)
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