A North Dutch grey-painted hall bench

PROBABLY FRIESLAND

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A North Dutch grey-painted hall bench
Probably Friesland
The pierced arched back carved with panelled strapwork and scrolling acanthus and centred by polychrome-decorated acoll coats-of-arms surmounted by a crown, the moulded rectangular seat between shaped panelled sides carved with foliage, minor restorations
108cm. high x 167cm. wide x 34cm. deep

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Gerrolsma and Mellinga, for Anna Mellinga (d. 1715) and Simon Gerrolsma (d. 1724), who married on 11 February 1706. The pair to this bench, which is in the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, was probably made on the occasion of their marriage in 1706, and is illustrated in K. Sluyterman, Huisraad en binnenhuis in Nederland, The Hague, 1947 (2nd. ed.), p. 251.

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