A SCOTTISH PENWORK GAMES BOX, ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES STIVEN, LAURENCEKIRK
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Auction: Day 1: Wednesday 20 August - Lots 1 - 296
Description
decorated with scenes after David Wilkie, the cavetto moulded hinged lid depicting a domestic scene probably involving payment of rent, the front, back and sides illustrating fox hunting scenes, the interior with a removable divided tray and four boxes, each lid with scenes of everyday life, raised on embossed brass feet, the base of the inserted shelf bearing paper retailer's label 'Smith and Co. Carvers and Gilder's, 78 Union Street, Aberdeen'
Dimensions
28.5cm wide, 14cm high, 22cm deep
Footnote
Note: The penwork scene decorating the lid of this fine box is adapted from Sir David Wilkie's 1807 painting 'The Rent Day.' One of the interior boxes in the interior also features a detail of this picture as well, and three other genre scenes presumably after Wilkie.
Literature: Tromans, Nichols 'David Wilkie. The People's Painter', published Edinburgh 2007, plate 2.
Provenance: Sold in these rooms 24 September 2008, lot 146 and subsequently on 10 February 2021, lot 260