Painted Pine Washstand

Canadian. A small pine washstand from Liverpool, Nova Scotia, with a stencilled backboard retaining a small inset mirror within a beaded frame. All in the original sponge painted red and black surface with stencilled green diamond petals at the centre of the top and on the drawer with similar yellow petals on the backboard. Illustrated in "The Early Furniture of Ontario and the Atlantic Provinces" (Country Loan Exhibition), plate 192, and in "The Furniture of Old Ontario" by Philip Shackleton pg. 376, plate 529. Ex. Mr. & Mrs. Howard Pain Collection. 1840-1850. Marked, "Country Heritage Loan Exhibition, Montgomery Mills, Toronto, ONT, Oct. 1974 - No. 192", inside drawer.

Estimate:£639.14

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