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Antique Box/Bed Settle in Original Paint
Ref: 5596
An antique bench from rural Sweden, bought directly from a farmhouse in Bromsebro, in the South-East, the seat lifts to reveal useful storage area, the front pulls out too to make a bed, typical in Swedish country furniture.
The paint is as found, there is an earlier cream paint under the present layer. The style with the cabriole leg, detailing to the arm rest, and the simplicity of the back rest, brings together and underlines the affinity of the neo-classical or Gustavian (early 19th cent.) & the modern (which came in at the end of the century) both being restrained and elegant. Really solid and heavy piece, no worm, typical Scandinavian build quality.
South-East Sweden c.1880
H: 88cm (34.6in)
W: 219cm (86.2in)
D: 57cm (22.4in)
SOLD
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