Artist Unknown 19th Century

Estimate

6,000 - 10,000 CAD

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Description

Artist Unknown
An English Gentleman's Wooden Dressing Case
brass mounted, interior fitted with a removable tray and silver capped bottles and boxes, with an envelope for letters and a mirror fitted in the underside of the lid
15.9 by 33.0 by 24.1 cm.
6 ¼ by 13 by 9 ½ in.

Provenance

By descent in the family to a Private Collection, Ontario

Catalogue Note

An inscription on the lid notes that this box was given by Rev. John Strachan (1778-1867), the first Bishop of Toronto, to the Canon of Westminster in 1850. His wife subsequently gave this to her brother Sir John Henry Lefroy (1817-1890), who was in Canada where his research helped to establish magnetic north.

Lefroy's image is memorialized in the Paul Kane painting Scene in the Northwest - Portrait, sold at Sotheby's in February, 2002, for the highest amount ever paid for a Canadian painting at auction, $5,062,500.