Mark Jones Antiques has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
Provenance: Private Collection, Scotland.
Ralph Turnbull (1788-1865) was born in Scotland and emigrated to Jamaica with his brothers in around 1815; the Kingston Chronicle of 1819 includes an advert of their work. Kingston was a thriving city built on the success of the sugar trade, and English merchants and officials were a receptive market for locally made furniture, albeit influenced by current English prototypes. Ralph Turnbull became the most recognised and important of 19th century Jamaican furniture makers; using indigenous woods of Jamaica, he is credited with the development of the genre of furniture that is synonymous with colonial Jamaica.
Mark Jones Antiques has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
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19th Century Jamaican Specimen Wood Box by Ralph Turnbull
