BY WILLIAM LEESON & SONS, CIRCA 1820

Details

A Regency papier-máché wine coaster
By William Leeson & Sons, Circa 1820
Painted with gilt heightened floral decoration, turned ivory handles and stamped to the underside LEESON & SONS/PAPIER/MACHIE
14¼in. (36.2cm.) long overall

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Lot Essay

Shirley Spaulding Devoe, English Papier Mâché of the Georgian and Victorian Periods, Wesleyan University 1971. A reference is made on page 78 to William Leeson & Son, recorded as active in the Birmingham and Wolverhampton areas from 1770.

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