A Late 19thC Oil on Canvas of a Still Life of Flowers & Fruit Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews The rare early twentieth century

The rare early twentieth century boudoir doll poised in first position with a straw stuffed suede body and suede covered papier-mache head with painted features

Width: 15” (all at extremities)

Metropolitan Asylums Board (as Giles and Biven) and as designers of County Asylum had already produced an experimental Corridor-Pavilion layout for the East Kent Asylum at Chartham

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this happy chappie is a fine and scarce example of shop display and butchers advertising

A Late 19thC Oil on Canvas of a Still Life of Flowers & Fruit Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews The rare early twentieth centuryOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1890 1900 Height: 21 Width: 15 Painted in oils on canvas, depicting a still life of an assortment of flowers in whites, pinks, greens blues and oranges, upon a smoky ebony ground, the posy bunched in a gadrooned pedestal vase sat on a ledge with grapes and other fruit below, the whole presented unframed and surviving from the late nineteenth century in untouched condition. The