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This is a Tunbridge ware pepper pot with a printed engraving of a seafront promenade pasted onto the wood. This work was characteristic of Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge, Kent, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is inscribed 'Parade, Worthing', with a picture of the scene above.

1 pepper pot: wood; good condition

MERL ‘Associated information’ form – ‘[insert] 59/4 pn 60/2342 // 59/5 pn. [60/2342] Dom. Serving food. [end insert] Name of Object: PEPPER POT(S) [2] // Age…: - // Name and address of present owner: [...] Dorking, Surrey // Description of use to which it was put…: [pencil sketch] 4" High. Picture of 'Parade, Worthing'. Wooden. Tunbridge ware., MERL miscellaneous note – Gill, M.A.V. (1985) Tunbridge ware, Princes Risborough // Tunbridge ware is a form of decoratively inlaid woodwork in which a mosaic of tiny pieces of different coloured woods form a picture. This style of mosaic decoration developed in late 1820s around Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge in Kent. The name ‘Tunbridge ware’ is also the term used to describe printed engravings and texts, some hand coloured, pasted onto light wood. This type of decoration was popular on holiday resort souvenirs.

Kent

Carved, Turned