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Antique Dowry Box with Metalwork & Naive Ship Painting
Ref: 5253
The spirit of Alfred Wallis, the naive Cornish painter of boats, lives on in this marriage box from the Eastern Mediterranean, the inside of the lid with a wonderfully fresh & colourful painting of a three master steamboat, the box otherwise is a traditional Ottoman bridal box, pine with traces of green paint & decorative metalwork with traditional symbolic abstract designs. Nice tidy size. Some of the collectors in the East will have a glass insert lid made for these boxes so the interior painting can be seen and the box used as a coffee or side table.
Eastern Mediterranean c.1880
H: 50cm (19.7in)
W: 80cm (31.5in)
D: 45cm (17.7in)
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