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A German brass-mounted scarlet, gilt and polychrome-japanned box on later red-painted stand

THE BOX - PROBABLY SPA, EARLY 18TH CENTURY; THE STAND - CIRCA 1900

Details

A German brass-mounted scarlet, gilt and polychrome-japanned box on later red-painted stand
The box - probably Spa, early 18th Century; the stand - circa 1900
The box decorated with oriental figures and flowers, with a later paper property label for Princess Margaret
29¼ in. (74 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm.) wide; 18 in. (45.5cm.) deep overall

Provenance

Displayed in the Hall of the Private Apartment of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon at Kensington Palace.

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Lot Essay

The red japanned dressing-box displays flowered tablets and a richly polychromed vignette of Chinese figures in a waterside landscape in the so-called 'India' fashion popularised by Messrs Stalker & Parker's, Treatise on Japanning and Varnishing, 1688. Amongst the principal centres of such japanned ware that 'might vie with the oriental' were the Berlin workshops of Gerhard Dagly (fl.1687-1714) and the Dresden workshop established in 1710 by Martin Schnell (d.1740).

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