bonbonniere



bonbonniere

Summary

A box modelled in the shape of a boar's head, painted in cream with details in sepia, with a chased circular mount and a hinged lid, which is painted with a female figure holding a spear on an olive ground.

Display Label

Gallery text panel Harold Raby Collection Harold Raby was charmed by English enamels finding them 'dainty and pretty, quaint and curious'. As a boy, he inherited a tiny, battered enamel box which inspired him to collect over 400 more items during the first half of the 20th century. These enamels were mainly made in Staffordshire and were fashionable from about 1750 to 1820. For Raby, they evoked a lost age of elegance and gave an insight into outmoded social customs. A local bank manager, Raby only had moderate means but he tried to buy examples of every type of object produced by the short-lived English enamel industry. He acquired boxes for face patches, snuff and tobacco, candlesticks, perfume bottles, tea caddies....... He even risked air raids to attend sales in London. Eventually, boxes outnumbered every other item and gave his collection an obsessive quality.


Object Name

bonbonniere

Date Created

1760-1780

Dimensions

object: 8.5cm x 7cm

accession number

1958.393

Place of creation

South Staffordshire

Medium

On Display

[G1] Manchester Art Gallery - Gallery 1
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Credit

Harold Raby bequest

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