Object Description
Extremely Fine Larger Then Normal Oak Chip Carved Dutch Frisian Mangle Board With Text, Initials And Date 1734.
Carved with different ornaments and with the Dutch text:
Witte Wassen Net Te Fouwen Is Siraadt Voor Jonge Frauwen
Translate:
White laundry nicely folded is a Jewel `for Young Women.
With the initials: M B anno 1734
It has not been restored and not cracked and has a beautiful old original patination.
To your information: these type of mangle boards where made by men to give it to their women they loved and in most of the cases it was given by a marriage, in the Netherlands this was a tradition.
90cm high, 16cm wide
Price: £750,—