Art Nouveau Travel Trunk Cigar Box

Description

An Art Nouveau travel trunk cigar box dating to circa 1900. The box is modelled in the form of a miniature travelling trunk with simulated straps, handles and a vacant initial plaque to the lid.

Originally designed for the storage of cigars, the interior provides useful storage for jewellery, watches or other small personal items. The novelty trunk form captures the fascination with travel and luggage at the turn of the twentieth century and makes for an attractive and unusual decorative piece.

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Measurements 

15.5cm High x 17cm Wide x 13cm Wide (6.1 x 6.7 x 5.12 Inches)

What is Art Nouveau?

Art Nouveau was an international style of art and architecture, especially the decorative arts. It was inspired by natural forms such as the curves of plants and flowers. Other characteristics of Art Nouveau were a sense of dynamism, movement and the use of modern materials particularly iron, glass and ceramics to create unusual forms. It was popular between 1890 and 1910 during the Belle Époque period and before the First World War. It was a reaction against the academic art, eclecticism and historicism of 19th century architecture and decoration.

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