Lot 284 , Gwendolen White (British, fl.1910-1915), Tobacco box and a fruit bowl, illuminated white wood

Gwendolen White (British, fl.1910-1915)
Tobacco box and a fruit bowl
illuminated white wood
the box depicting Virginia, Russia, Turkey and Egypt with inscription relating to tobacco and signed to the underside 'Dennis his box', the bowl with inscription relating to fruit, together with some loose transfer pencil designs, a letter from 1915 and a business card

£300-500

Condition:
Tobacco box - shaped and made like a tea caddy but the inscription clearly relates to tobacco, with central gilt monogram now rather dark and faded, the inscription 'when all things were made none was made better than tobacco / there is no herb like unto it under the canopy of heaven' and around the frieze 'to be a lone mans companion, a bachelor's friend, a chilly man's fire, a sad man's cordial, a wakeful man's sleep & a hungry man's food'. Depictions of a native American Indian smoking a pipe, a crouched Cossack, a Turkish man smoking a huqqa and an Egyptian man holding a carpet, inscription regarding Dennis to the underside, 18cm wide, 10cm deep, 9cm high, overall rather dirty and dark, housing inside a business card for Decorative Illumination on Wood Gwen Plunkett of St Francis, Lancing, Sussex and Cecyl White Orchard Cottage, Long Hope, Gloucester. The bowl equally darkened with numerous panels and the inscription around the frieze, 'Come by come by sweet two time and sound to I come by, goblins cry, come by, our orchard fruits come by', running above small panels depicting goblins and fruit, with further inscriptions below. Rubbed to the inside, 23cm diameter, 10cm high. Comes with tracing paper designs of Georgians at a musical soiree, dancing medieval figures and a hunting party, together with a plain postcard addressed to Miss Gwen White, 338 Camden Road N and dated 24 July 1915, stating 'congrats to the infant on having been awarded ¼ dozen gold medals from Benjer of 81 Inverness Terrace West.

Sold for £300