Miniature Painting of The Virgin Mary c.1790

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Miniature Painting of The Virgin Mary c.1790A diminutive, but beautifully detailed devotional painting of The Virgin Mary c. 1790. Painting on a tiny wooden roundel in oil, and set in a turned gilded cavetto frame. The Virgins head is swathed in a scarf and her eyes set down. Her expression contemplative and serene.

Striking and very large outdoor handkerchief shaped planter designed by Willy Guhl

Over-painted many times

In Ancient Rome and Ancient Greek architecture acanthus ornament appears extensively in Corinthian order and Composite order capitals

The bust is of Eumenes II - the “Saviour” of Pergamon who ruled in 197-159 BC

The Medici urn (after the antique Medici Vase) was originally exhibited by the Handyside Foundry in the Great Exhibition of 1851

Irori is about the importance of spirit of the home

required that all portraits depicted him as a handsome young man

Equally they are beautiful as works of art within your interior

the circles carved into the sides are often associated with warding off evil and Witchcraft

Castelnaudary

Lichen covered terracotta French storage jar

A truly wondrous collectors piece