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Antique Box with Love Heart in Pale Green
Ref: 4876
An antique pine box made to hold a marriage dowry and of a type that has a organic love heart motif in the centre panel surrounded by semi-abstract plant and vegetal forms that symbolise natural and cosmic fecundity.
This one from the same region as the previous post, the hinges indicate an earlier date, probably circa 1840. The original paint on the top is nicely worn away to reveal the aged pine. It is good condition and unusual in colouring.
At a later period these boxes were primarily red on a black ground and dated and some of these have turned up in Canada used by emigrants.
This one in green is different but green is also a traditional colour of the Bukovina, the land of the beech forests.
Northern Bukovina c.1840
H: 40.5cm (15.9in)
W: 96cm (37.8in)
D: 47cm (18.5in)
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