AN EARLY VICTORIAN PAPIER-MACHE TRAY

AN EARLY VICTORIAN PAPIER-MACHE TRAY

MID-19TH CENTURY

gilt and polychrome decorated on a brown ground with scrolling leaves and flowers, the centre with a coat of arms for the Bates family with the motto 'Fide et Integritate', together with another papier-mache tray decorated with chinoiserie foliage and flowers around a central urn (2)

61.5 x 81.5cm (max)

Catalogue Note

The Bates family were described in Frederic Boase's 'Modern English Biography' vol. IV, 1908 as London bankers. Robert Makin Bates, a descendent was sentenced to 14 years transportation at the Old Bailey in 1855 for 'converting to his own use' Danish bonds to the value of £5,000 belonging to John Griffith, Canon of Rochester.