An Early Victorian Oil on Board Portrait of Sarah Goring c.1840-45 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The thick hand-blown glass lace

The thick hand-blown glass lace makers flask or flash globe sitting in the original turned oak stand survives from the first half of the nineteenth century

the way in which we now expect a door stop to look and function today was down to a 19th century African American inventor named Osbourn Dorsey who came up with the design on December 10

Thus we see here an apparently ordinary object

Ireland’s patron saint

One of the eyes has sunken slightly within the skull

An Early Victorian Oil on Board Portrait of Sarah Goring c.1840-45 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The thick hand-blown glass laceOrigin: UnknownPeriod: Early VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1840 45Height: 34. 5Width: 29. 5Depth: 1. 5The well realised half length depiction of Sarah Goring (nee Archer), in oils on canvas laid to board, clad in period dress, being a white lace dress with scarlet shawl, seated on a red armchair and looking out to the viewer, the whole presented in its original moulded gilt frame, the work surviving from start of Queen Victorias reign. The