30 March 2011

Mystery Object No. 3 - Something Oriental

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
Can you take a guess where this eighteenth-century corner cupboard was made? 

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.

9 comments:

  1. France? I know they liked their Chinese stuff back in the day. (By the way, another gorgeous object!)

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  2. I'm going to guess England - I think techniques like Japanning were being used in the 18th century...I think!!

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  3. I'm going to guess that's a French escutcheon... But as for the object?! French or English? Lovely, whatever!

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  4. Not Japanese?

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  5. Bet its from the 1700s. Does that help?

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  6. I think it's a double-bluff. Must be from Japan. Although you want us to think its not.

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  7. I'm going along with the double bluff idea! JAPAN!

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  8. I 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!

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  9. Just 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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