A Pair of Late 19thC Memento Mori Sculpted & Painted Plaster Skulls sub-Curios gradually becoming reddish-brown

gradually becoming reddish-brown

They then moved to 60 College Square in about 1900 and then occupied 61 (where these specimens were prepared) shortly afterwards

as the label goes on to read “made exclusively for Aspreys for the Great Parisian Exhibition 1899” and made by a fine French maker in Paris itself

Henry Howell & Company

Of oblong form with brass campaign handle

A Pair of Late 19thC Memento Mori Sculpted & Painted Plaster Skulls sub-Curios gradually becoming reddish-brownOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890 1900Depth: 2. 5Height: 7. 5Width: 5. 5 (each)The probably unique pair of ochre painted plaster human skulls, each primitively sculpted with accentuated features and with flat backs and integral hanging hooks, the wholes with a good patination and surviving from late Victorian England. The skulls are complete without any major losses, the paintwork nicely worn as one would expect and