FLEMISH CARVED OAK OR POPLAR MANGLE BOARD, PROBABLY FRIESLAND
DATED 1780
£303
Auction: Session Two - Thursday 20th February at 10am
Description
topped by a trifid cluster of three roundels decorated with a further five chip-carved geometric roundels below, engraved with an inscription running down the decoration in Dutch ‘Wet gewassen net gevouwven is de sieraad der ionge vrouwen’ which translates to 'Wet washed, tidily folded, is the ornament of young women', then initialled ‘M L D’ and dated 1780 below
Dimensions
78cm high, 11cm deep