Time and Tide Decorative Box - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Sale - Time and Tide Decorative Box

ENLARGE

The Arts and Crafts movement, initiated in England during the second half of the 19th century, aimed to reassert the importance of craftsmanship in the face of mechanization and mass production. A loose and informal coalition of shared cultural values, the movement attracted professional artists, architects, designers, and philanthropists as well as amateurs and middle-class women seeking work in the home. They set up small workshops, self-consciously distinct from the mammoth industrial manufactories that were becoming dominant. One such artisan was Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (British, 1857–1941), who set up his own shop in 1881 and designed a wide range of materials during his long and fruitful career. The design on the Museum’s decorative box is based on that of an original clock painted by Voysey in 1896. The front of the clock features three stylized trees before a floral field on the bank of a river or lake with two sailboats. It is typical of the English Arts and Crafts movement to include sayings as part of the decorative motif on furniture and other objects. Thus, “Time & Tide Wait For No Man" appears on a ribbon painted across the trees. Produced in cooperation with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.

Hand-painted wood, with decal. Length 5 1/2 in., width 8 in., height 2 3/4 in.

Original price $45

Time and Tide Decorative Box
06-017206
Member Price: $20.25 each
Non-Member Price: $22.50 each

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