Object Description
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A rare Aesthetic Movement ebonized polychrome painted Humidor with a shaped display plinth to the top, surrounded with a turned gallery, and an upper compartmented drawer hand painted with a spray of flowers and a hovering butterfly. On the main door there are four separate painted panels, the top left has the flower ‘Swamp Doghobble’ or ‘Lily of the Valley’ with a butterfly. The upper right hand panel has ‘Wisteria’ and a little bumble bee and a butterfly searching for nectar. The lower left and right hand panel has cherry blossoms with three butterflies. The main door opens to reveal a large drawer to the top, with 21 cigar trays below, each with 12 shaped recesses for cigars allowing the storage of 252 cigars in total. Another larger drawer at the bottom. At the base, the largest drawer of all hand painted to the front with a water lilly and a dragonfly hovering above.
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