A REGENCY PAINTED SYCAMORE COTTAGE SEWING BOX

A REGENCY PAINTED SYCAMORE COTTAGE SEWING BOX

POSSIBLY TUNBRIDGE WARE, C.1800-15

naively painted with windows and doors, the hinged roof revealing a lift-out tray, originally with divisions, with a bone tape measure and a thimble, above a pink paper lined compartment, the base with a conforming drawer with six divisions for spools

14.4cm high, 15cm wide, 11cm deep

Provenance

By family repute, given by the Music Hall star Marie Lloyd to her seamstress for her 21st birthday, later gifted to a close friend and thence by descent.