{"product_id":"alpine-folk-objects-eastern-european-richly-decorated-jewelry-box-early-20th-c","title":"Alpine Folk Objects |  Eastern European Richly decorated Jewelry Box – early 20th C.","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eEastern Europoean or Balkan “Bauernmalerei”, early 20th. century\u003cbr\u003eHandpainted wooden jewelry box with hinged lid, unusual trapez shape\u003cbr\u003eRickly decorated with ornaments and colors, both on the outside on all sides as well the inside of the lid and the bottom.\u003cbr\u003ePine wood, laquered, hand painted\u003cbr\u003e19.5 × 13.5 × 12cm\u003cbr\u003eCondition: antique with visible traces of use, especially on the top\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eAbout Bauernmalerei:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeasant furniture painting can be found from around the second half of the 18th and especially the 19th century in rural areas of Southern Germany, northern Switzerland and Alsace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eInitially painted imitations of furniture richly decorated with carvings and exotic veneers as owned by aristocracy and clergy, its increasingly opulent canon of forms soon ranged from stylised flowers and fruit to ornaments, rocailles and by the 18th century to figures and scenic images. With industrialization and bourgeois salon culture finding its way around Europe, hand painted furniture quickly fell out of fashion for being peasant and has almost completely vanished at the end of the 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eTypical items were so called bridal caskets or cupboards for brides to store their dowry, but also entire bed chambers and: smaller jewelry cases where the lady of the house kept her precious personal items such as jewelry, a bible or love letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alpine Folk Objects","offers":[{"title":"One of a kind","offer_id":57337303630201,"sku":null,"price":420.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0981\/4510\/8345\/files\/alpine-folk-objects-eastern-european-richly-decorated-jewelry-box-early-20th-c-alpine-folk-objects-interior-import-283-8797-2.jpg?v=1779896484","url":"https:\/\/saalhof1123.com\/products\/alpine-folk-objects-eastern-european-richly-decorated-jewelry-box-early-20th-c","provider":"SAALHOF 1123","version":"1.0","type":"link"}