Kendall House Antiques Ltd. has dated this Antique Faux Book Box to the 1900s.
The box 58cm high x 50cm wide.
Provenance: Originally from Lambeth Palace which stands on the opposite bank of the River Thames from the Palace of Westminster, which has been the London residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury for almost 800 years.
Then through decent to the Burney family.
His first son James Burney (1750–1821) was an English explorer and writer who served as a rear-admiral and accompanied Captain James Cook on his last two voyages. He later wrote two books on naval voyages and a third on the game of whist.
His second son Charles Burney FRS (1757–1817) was an English writer and scholar, and a schoolmaster, clergyman, and chaplain to King George III. His son, Charles Parr Burney was an Anglican archdeacon in the middle of the nineteenth century and his grandson another Charles Burney was the Archdeacon of Kingston-upon-Thames from 1879 to 1904.
One of his daughter Frances Burney (1776–1828) also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. she held the post of "Keeper of the Robes" to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George III's queen.
Another daughter Susanna Elizabeth Burney, was an English writer, whose letters are said to be "the most important source on opera in the period"
Kendall House Antiques Ltd. has dated this Antique Faux Book Box to the 1900s.
Kendall house antiques a traditional shop in the north cotswold’s market town of chipping campden.
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Remarkably large faux book/document box from Lambeth Palace. Circa 1900
