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Vivid Blue Painted Arc or Coffer
Ref: 2935
A striking piece of wooden painted furniture. A coffer or so-called arc (a box made of planks wedged into stiles and wooden pegged).
An early construction and painted in a lovely original or old blue colour. The date on it "1937" seems a scarcely believable date for it's construction given that it is so early a looking piece. It is either a later carved date, for the re-use of the piece as a marriage coffer (and these were) or it is evidence of how little the Romanian peasantry in the mountain valleys had moved on from a medieval life style and technology.
Carpathians 19th or early 20th cent.
H: 74cm (29.1in)
W: 109cm (42.9in)
D: 57cm (22.4in)
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