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Remarkable Folk Art Painted Box Bench
Ref: 3025
A marriage bench from the "Fancy Country" - a group of villages with distinctive embroidery, costume and painted furniture in this style - this piece is exceptional condition in fact seemingly barely used owing to it being situated in the "clean room" of the family home, the peasant Hungarians equivalent of the English front room, where the best furniture, plate and silver were kept.
Transylvania mid 20th cent.
H: 95cm (37.4in)
W: 198cm (78.0in)
D: 52cm (20.5in)
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