FOLK ART DECOUPAGE MENORAH CHEST.

Dated 1895

Repurposed cardboard container with unusual arched lid, decorated with applied color paper and paper-cut embellishments including a trellis-like gate facade, a footed planter and other geometric design motifs. Arched lid bearing paper-cut Hebrew date [5]655 (1895). Evidence of covered fabric beneath decoupage. Minor absence along lid, taped and variously worn. 14.75 x 13.5 x 6 inches.

The consignor relates that this container was utilized to store a Chanukah menorah. Perhaps that reconciles the unusual misplacement of Hebrew date letters which now also read: “The Candles” - an obvious reference to a menorah.