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Tunbridge Ware Folk House Sewing Box

From our Sewing Box collection, we are thrilled to offer this Tunbridge Ware Cottage Sewing Box. The box of rectangular form made from Sycamore wood and modelled as a cottage with an apex roof and chimney. The Cottage is painted to the exterior with traditional leaded windows, a front and back door, trees and foliage and it is finished with a rare ladder, rake and bird cage. When opened the Novelty Cottage Sewing Box reveals the original pink lining and compartments for storing sewing accoutrements with various threads and accessories, the top tray is removable and allows access to the lower storage compartment. The Tunbridge Ware Cottage Sewing Box is a rare example of early Tunbridge Ware with painted decoration dating to the Georgian period during the reign of George III Circa 1800. The later Tunbridge Ware features inlaid woods which is more commonly recognised. A similar example and most probably by the same hand can be seen at the Victoria & Albert Museum London.

The Sewing Box comes complete with working lock and tasselled key.

Measurements (Inches) 5.3 x 7.4 x 4.13

Literature Mark Goodger 25th Anniversary Catalogue Page 38

Tunbridge Ware is a form of inlaid woodwork which is typically in the form of boxes, smaller objects and/or accessories that are characteristic of Tonbridge and the spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent in the 18th and 19th centuries. The decoration consists of a mosaic of many very small pieces of different coloured wood combined to make a decorative scene.

Sycamore also known as Harewood is a member of the Maple family, found in Europe. It is light yellow in colour and is often a very clean wood, with a straight, fine grain. The wood is often pippy. However, these pips are usually a very similar colour to the rest of the wood making them hardly visible.

The Georgian era was a period in British history dating from 1714-1837, the Georgian era after the Hanoverian kings George I, George II, George III and George IV.

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