An Early/Mid 20thC Papier-Mâché Model of a Human Skull on Marble Stand

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An Early/Mid 20thC Papier-Mâché Model of a Human Skull on Marble StandOrigin: English Period: Early 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1940 60 Height: 11. 5 Width: 6 Depth: 6 (all on plinth) With a beautiful patina, the model human skull cast in papiermache and hand painted in good detail with the suture lines showing, the whole once used for theatrical use and surviving from the early to mid twentieth century period on a white marble plinth. The skull and stand are both in good original order and it is likely that the

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the decorative nineteenth century three-panel changing or room dividing screen in the Regency period style having a sectional mirrored top showing the original foxed plate to two panels

modelled in the style of Clytie after the original Greco-Roman marble in the Townley collection in the British Museum

wonder and mystery in abundance

Splendour of Eternal Light

Length: 280cms / 9

A wonderfully evocative vernacular armchair

McLagan & Cumming was founded in 1872 as lithographic printers

The peg-jointed estate made eighteenth century open armchair in elm and oak

and surviving from the first quarter of twentieth century America

There may be later additions and there is a triangular shaped repair to the top which also has bowing

suggesting exoticism

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