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Ref: 6279
Decorative and practical, an arts and craft painted and carved box bench, it’s a self-consciously Hungarian piece, with tulips in silhouette and outline, and painted throughout, the nationalists at the end of the 19th century seized on the tulip as a national emblem, something that had been with the Magyar tribes since the migration from the steppes many centuries before.
Hungary c.1910
H: 104cm (40.9in)
W: 176cm (69.3in)
D: 55cm (21.7in)
£1550
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