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National Trust Porcelain Boxes: Decatur, Lyndhurst, Teche, Cliveden, LE, Certs
National Trust Porcelain Boxes: Decatur, Lyndhurst, Teche, Cliveden, LE, Certs
National Trust Porcelain Boxes: Decatur, Lyndhurst, Teche, Cliveden, LE, Certs
National Trust Porcelain Boxes: Decatur, Lyndhurst, Teche, Cliveden, LE, Certs
National Trust Porcelain Boxes: Decatur, Lyndhurst, Teche, Cliveden, LE, Certs
National Trust Porcelain Boxes: Decatur, Lyndhurst, Teche, Cliveden, LE, Certs
National Trust Porcelain Boxes: Decatur, Lyndhurst, Teche, Cliveden, LE, Certs
National Trust Porcelain Boxes: Decatur, Lyndhurst, Teche, Cliveden, LE, Certs
National Trust Porcelain Boxes: Decatur, Lyndhurst, Teche, Cliveden, LE, Certs
National Trust Porcelain Boxes: Decatur, Lyndhurst, Teche, Cliveden, LE, Certs
National Trust Porcelain Boxes: Decatur, Lyndhurst, Teche, Cliveden, LE, Certs
National Trust Porcelain Boxes: Decatur, Lyndhurst, Teche, Cliveden, LE, Certs

National Trust Porcelain Boxes: Decatur, Lyndhurst, Teche, Cliveden, LE, Certs

$ 21.12

Availability: 100 in stock

Description

Four fine collectible trinket boxes made by Porcelaine de Paris for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. These lovely, French boxes are in four different shapes and measure approximately 4 x 3 1/2 by 1 1/4 inches. Each box comes with its own fold-out paper certificate with additional historic background on the houses and their owners. These boxes are made in a limited edition of 2,500 and each box is individually numbered as shown in the photos.
Cliveden (1763): country seat  of Benjamin Chew and center of the American Revolutionary Battle of Germantown, Pennsylvania, October 4, 1777. The interior of this box features a painted silhouette portrait of Benjamin Chew and the facade of his home, Cliveden.
Decatur House (1818 - 1819) Washington, D.C., designed by Benjamin Latrobe, on commission from Stephen Decatur, American Naval Hero of Four Wars, Headquarters of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The interior of this box features a painted portrait of Stephen Decatur and a scene of the ship Philadelphia.
Lyndhurst, a Gothic Revival Mansion on the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York, designed in 1838 for General William Paulding by Alexander Jackson Davis who designed additions for George Merritt in 1864-65, purchased 1880 by Jay Gould.  The interior of this box features a painted portrait of Anna Gould, Duchess of Talleyrand - Perigord, and an image of Merritt's Folly.
The Shadows-on-the-Teche, New Iberia, Louisiana (1831 - 1834), the town house of David Weeks, a plantation owner. The property remained in the Weeks family for five generations.The interior of this box features a painted portrait of Lily Weeks and a landscape view of Bayou.
Great opportunity to acquire the set of four in one purchase and save on additional shipping costs when purchased separately.
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