£45
A Chinese Republic early 20th century hard wood and metal bound circular hand painted wedding basket / box. The basket having a circular top painted with traditional depiction over a series of floral vignettes to the sides. Metal ring hooks with metal plaques locking system. Handles to sides. The box opening to reveal a spacious interior with hidden door to base. Raised on circular foot. Measures approx. 25cm tall, 37cm in diameter.
Provenance - part of a collection from Netheravon House, in Netheravon, Wiltshire. The house was built after 1734 by Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, on a commanding part of the chalk bluff that overlooks the Avon Valley, to the south of the 11th-century village church and close to where a Roman villa stood. The grounds were laid out by the landscape architect and astronomer Thomas Wright and published in Universal Architecture in 1755 and 1758.
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