Description
Heading : Rare Tunbridge ware box by S W Morris
Date : c1815
Period : Regency
Origin : Brighton, Sussex
Decoration : Central print of “Part of the North Parade & Donaldson’s Library on the Stein, Brighton” – penwork border. Internally the label reads as above + Published by S.W. Morris Manufacturer.
Size : 13.8x9cm, 5cm height
Condition : Good, some light knocks and scratches commensurate with age.
Restoration : None
Weight : 163 grams
It is extremely rare to find any labelled examples of Morris work. Brian Austen in his seminial Tunbridge Ware and Related European Decorative Woodwares only found two. There were several generations of Morris Tunbridge ware producers, this box coming from Sergeant Witten Morris’s time at the helm.
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