Patch box
Category
Ceramics
Date
Unknown
Materials
Collection
Bath Assembly Rooms, Somerset
NT 67179
Summary
Enamelled patch box inscribed with and depicting Prior Park, Bath from c.1800.
Provenance
Created c. 1800 for the Bath souvenir trade. Sold at auction by Powell & Powell, Bath, 12 December 1928. Bought by dealers Mallet & Son, and sold the same day to Alfred Leonard Fuller (1870-1941). Then by descent to his grandson, the most recent owner, who died 2023. Sold at auction by his executors at Dreweatts 1759, Newbury, 10 October 2024, and purchased by the National Trust for the Bath Assembly Rooms.