A Pair of Late 19thC Memento Mori Sculpted & Painted Plaster Skulls sub-Curios as the label goes on

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

This well sized flight of draws desirability lies in the fact that it remains unspoiled and is therefore superbly decorative as well as being inherently useful

The design for the Second Gloucestershire County Asylum was to be considered even more revolutionary

surviving principally from George III period England and the last quarter of the eighteenth century

in true eighteenth-century sensibilité style

A Pair of Late 19thC Memento Mori Sculpted & Painted Plaster Skulls sub-Curios as the label goes onOrigin: 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