Pick of the week: The Stobwasser box that was up to snuff
Economic stimulus packages are not a new phenomenon. Georg Siegmund Stobwasser (1717-76) was among the many craftsmen attracted to the Brunswick by the special privileges granted them in the city by Duke Karl I (1713-80) in the wake of the Seven Years’ War.
In its pomp, the ‘lacquerware manufactory’ he founded with his father in 1763 employed more than 5…