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Antique French Artist’s Oil Paint Box with Wooden Palette & Studio Contents – Manufrance

Antique French Artist’s Oil Paint Box with Wooden Palette & Studio Contents – Manufrance

€295,00 EUR
€295,00 EUR
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Carefully sourced in France: One of a kind piece

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An evocative early 20th-century French artist’s oil paint box, complete with its wooden palette and a wonderfully preserved assortment of studio contents. The fitted wooden case contains old oil paint tubes, brushes, bottles and metal containers, with layers of dried pigment throughout showing its long history as a working painter’s box.

The large removable wooden palette is particularly striking, its surface built up with years of dried oil colour in greens, blues, ochres, reds and creams. Paint marks also remain throughout the interior of the box, giving the piece the character of a genuine working artist’s studio rather than simply a decorative case.

The front bears the circular stamp of Manufacture Française d’Armes et Cycles, Saint-Étienne, better known as Manufrance, the celebrated French manufacturer and mail-order company. Manufrance offered an extraordinarily wide range of goods during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including artists’ materials and painting equipment.

Constructed in wood with dovetailed corners, a carrying handle, metal fittings and a fitted compartmented interior, the box retains an appealing combination of practical craftsmanship and accumulated studio wear. Displayed open with the palette and paints visible, it makes a particularly decorative piece for an artist’s studio, library, cabinet of curiosities or an interior layered with antique and vintage objects.

Sourced in: South West France
Age: Circa 1910-1930
Material: Wood and metal
What makes it special: Its beautiful rich patina and studio contents

Antique French Artist’s Oil Paint Box with Wooden Palette & Studio Contents Details:

Length: 14.4” / 36.5cm

Width: 10.8” / 27.5cm

Height: 2.8” / 7cm

Weight: 5.7lbs / 2.6kg

Condition: Wear consistent with age and use, with marks, scratches, surface wear and extensive traces of dried paint throughout. The vintage studio contents also show expected age and use. Please refer to the images.

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