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Vintage Hand-Painted Tole Planter, Small

Vintage Hand-Painted Tole Planter, Small

Regular price $65.00 USD
Regular price Sale price $65.00 USD
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This little tole planter wears its decoration entirely by hand, grape leaves and clusters painted in warm gold and amber across a green ground. Brass lion masks hold ring handles on either side, and a pierced gilt gallery rings the top, a detail meant to let air reach whatever was growing inside. It has clearly done real work in a garden room somewhere.

Dimensions
7.25 in. H 5.75 in. Diameter
Surface
Original painted surface, with paint loss and rust breaking through to bare metal at the interior wall, base, and feet; no indication of repainting or refinishing
Primary Material
Painted tin, tole, over a tinned steel body
Period
Vintage
Origin
Continental European, likely French
Also Known As
cachepot
Maker
Not identified; no marks present
Construction
Rolled and seamed cylindrical body, hand-painted decoration, pierced gallery band at the rim with gilt highlighting
Secondary Material
Brass hardware
Hardware
Two brass lion mask ring handles, three cast paw feet

This piece carries real wear consistent with age and with use as a working planter. The interior wall and base show significant rust, with paint flaking away to expose bare metal across a wide area of the interior bottom and lower interior wall. The exterior base shows the same rust bleeding through chipped paint. All three feet have paint loss at the tips, revealing a lighter metal underneath the green overpaint, wear rather than a repair as far as I can tell from photographs. The exterior body presents well otherwise, with the hand-painted decoration, gilt gallery, and brass ring handles intact and legible, showing only light surface wear consistent with age.  Please review all photographs closely, as they form part of this description.

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