A Very Rare 19thC Glass Domed Snow Globe sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Commissioned by the Empire Marketing

Commissioned by the Empire Marketing Board for the refreshing qualities of this quintessential English drink

a former garden which sat half way between Wentworth and Whitechapel High Streets

Length: 35 inches

Others beautifully captured are circus impresario and lion tamer Clyde Beatty

with a few teeth missing and loss to one eye socket

A Very Rare 19thC Glass Domed Snow Globe sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Commissioned by the Empire MarketingOrigin: English Period: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: 1890 1900 Height: 4 inches Diameter: 2. 75 inches (at base) The early lead glass domed snow globe with knob finial on an ebonised circular ceramic plinth base with remnants of gilding having a ceramic(?) ebony representation of a church amongst water within, survives from the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The globe has not been repaired or restored in any way, the gilt