BY CLAY, LONDON, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY PAPIER MACHE TRAY
BY CLAY, LONDON, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular ground decorated with scrolling foliage, the reverse with impressed stamp 'CLAY, KING STREET, COVT. GARDEN'
22¾ x 30½in. (57 x 77.4cm.)

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Lot Essay

Henry Clay was renowned for his japanning and papier mache business which he conducted out of Birmingham and then London from 1772 until his death in 1812. In 1772, he received a patent for a special process of pasting sheets of paper together and stove hardening them to producea durable substance suitable for furniture wares.

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