Lacquer picnic set

Jamaican

British Museum

late 17th-early 18th Century

Set in Takamakye technique, consisting of tiered box and lid, 2 bottles, drawer and tray. The case is decorated with gourds in gold on a black ground, the drawer and trays with clematis in gold and silver on pear-skin ground, and the bottles with pear-skin ground. Part of a gift of seven works donated by Miss A V Hammond through the Art Fund to the British Museum in 1964.

• Medium: pear skin, laquer, gold & silver
• Dimensions: 37 x 32 x 24 cm
• ArtFunded in: 1964
• Bequeathed by A V Hammond through The Art Fund

Provenance

Miss A V Hammond.

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