Paint box
Rowney & Forster
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oak, Glass, Paint, Paper, Textile, Cork
Measurements
229 mm (Length)102 mm (W)45 mm (D)
Place of origin
Oxford Street
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1335641
Summary
Oak paint box. with hinged lid – two small brass hinges, brass lock with keyhole on front of box.. Inside lid, paper label printed in elaborate scripts ‘Rowney and Forster superfine color preparers and black lead pencil manufacturers to their Majesties The Prince Regent, Princess of wales and principal artists No.14 Oxford Street, London’. Base divided in two longways. Front compartment lined with printed paper (illegible). In rear compartment, two bits of colour blocks, a broken, sharpened pastel stamped ‘G.Rowney & Co. No.1’, a red handled paint brush, a sharpened length of wood, an abrasive length, a paper packet labeled in black ink ‘Woodcock wings’, containing three feathers. Front compartment contains 6 clear glass bottles iwht cork stoppers, paper labels ‘Hancock & Son, Worcester’, each one stating the contained colour. , Inner tray lined with squares of paper on which are block of colours, names printed on the edges of tray. Fabric lifting handles set into ends.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
ROWNEY AND FORSTER Superfine Color Preparers and Black Lead Pencil Manufacturers to THEIR MAJESTIES/The Prince Regent and Prince of Wales/No 14 Oxford Street
Makers and roles
Rowney & Forster