A Superb French Caen Limestone Carving in the Form of a Hooped Crown c.1840-60 sub-Decorative Objects two with arm supports with

two with arm supports with each showing a later applied chocolate lacquer paint now worn commensurate with age

Notable events in the year 1883 included the publication of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and the opening of the first electric railway in Brighton

and often aborts acute colds

75” (The Globe)

whose stewards kept the bills

A Superb French Caen Limestone Carving in the Form of a Hooped Crown c.1840-60 sub-Decorative Objects two with arm supports withOrigin: French Period: 2nd Empire Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1840 60 Height: 6. 5 Width: 9. 75 Diameter: 8 The unusual and well carved mid nineteenth century Caen limestone stone carving in the form of a regal hooped crown, having an unusual inverted dipping half arch to the globe, possibly lacking the monde finial lost in antiquity, the circlet with a fleur de lys motif band to a lower stepped band, the whole surviving in weathered condition from