BY WONTNER AND BENSON, ON A LATER STAND

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A REGENCY BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED PAPIER-MACHE TRAY
By Wontner and Benson, on a later stand
The oval tray with solid gallery decorated with trailing foliage, with a pierced handle at each end, stamped to the reverse 'WONTNER & BENSON LONDON', on an oval stand with cabriole legs, each headed by a flower
30½ in. (77.5 cm.) wide; 15¼ in. (38.5 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Wontner and Benson, are known to have worked from St. John Street, Clerkenwell between 1803-4 and appear to have specialised in japanned papier-maché. A stamped papier maché tray by Wontner and Benson was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 21 March 1989, lot 68.

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