Necessary For Smokers In Straw Marquetry

Light and fragile, objects in straw marquetry, inspired by Asia, win Europe via Italy late 17th; Born of the address of two diametrically opposed social classes, the nuns and the convicts, they offer subjects proper to their creators, the religion for some, the ports and the vessels for the others; the sisters are engaged in these tasks with great patience (paperolles and canivets also) because of their isolation, the convicts, deprived of their job before, found a meager report that could improve their prison conditions (the English prisons Norman Cross and Hundington were created for this purpose ). the Art Deco period with JM Franck and A.Groult will give this noble art its nobility and Lison de Caunes will be the extension. Here, all at once cigar case and box-matches pyrogen, these two containers form a set and date from the mid-nineteenth; They are in good condition but have very small defects without visual gravity. Shipping offered.