It’s time for our third ‘mystery object’ from the Geffrye’s collection!
(c) Geffrye Museum, London |
(c) Geffrye Museum, London |
(c) Geffrye Museum, London |
It is made of wood (possibly pine), is 90 cm (around 3 feet) high, and would be mounted on the wall of a parlour.
Here’s a clue: we haven’t given away the answer!
Answer in the blog comments or via our Twitter feed.
Look here for the correct answer this Saturday.
France? I know they liked their Chinese stuff back in the day. (By the way, another gorgeous object!)
ReplyDeleteI'm going to guess England - I think techniques like Japanning were being used in the 18th century...I think!!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to guess that's a French escutcheon... But as for the object?! French or English? Lovely, whatever!
ReplyDeleteNot Japanese?
ReplyDeleteBet its from the 1700s. Does that help?
ReplyDeleteI think it's a double-bluff. Must be from Japan. Although you want us to think its not.
ReplyDeleteI'm going along with the double bluff idea! JAPAN!
ReplyDeleteI think it might be French too... but so as to be different I am going to say Germany. They were fond of oriental design too!
ReplyDeleteJust to say - we're loving the mind games going on this week. Some of you are very clever. You've got until Saturday to make your minds up!
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