Mauchline Ware was a decorative technique that originated in the 1830s in the Scottish town of Mauchline in which a transfer print, in this case a photograph, was applied to a lacquered wooden object.
Foster, Sheila J, Manfred Heiting, and Rachel Stuhlman. Imagining Paradise: The Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at George Eastman House, Rochester. Göttingen: Steidl, 2007 p. 145