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Gorgeous Folk Painted Marriage Box
Ref: 1894
A top quality pine dowry chest or marriage box, not Swedish as often stated but from a village in Northern Bohemia, where the professional furniture painters produced what is often regarded as the most beautiful and best quality of European folk art painting, the characteristic blue country marbling is in fact so it is said an effect imitating the patterned dapple of light and shade seen when standing beneath the canopy of poplar trees in May. The decoration in the panels, on the lid and sides is similarly floral and bucolic and strikes the right note and in accordance with the traditional rites for the country wedding of the couple for whom the piece was made or bought. Fully restored original hinges. Small replacement at front of top.
Bohemia early 19th cent.
H: 72cm (28.3in)
W: 117cm (46.1in)
D: 64cm (25.2in)
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