S/5883 Antique Treen 19th Century Pine Flour Barrel

A most useful lidded staved pine flour barrel of tapered and coopered construction, held together with ash bands that are stapled with overlapping joins. It has a paper scene of ladies with a child and a gentleman in a park and has an ash swing handle and fitted lid. The whole has a pleasing colour and patination.

6½ in. (16.5 cm.) High
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) Diameter English Circa 1850