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Blue & Red Marriage Box with Lyre Motif
Ref: 2810
A splendid original painted marriage dower or antique box from Central Europe. In one village or group of villages can be found trunks of this type and decoration. Pine but with nicely carved oak legs. This one is especially attractive in its proportion which is neo-classical. It is painted in a blue obtained from natural dyes and then decorated in red by stencilling using paper cut outs. In this part of Europe in southern Poland and Slovakia the interiors and even exteriors of the farmhouses were decorated by colourful stencilling too.
Slovakia c.1850
H: 84cm (33.1in)
W: 135cm (53.1in)
D: 69cm (27.2in)
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