A Large c.1800 Italian Polychrome Painted & Giltwood Carved Pricket Wall Light antiques perhaps waiting to break into

perhaps waiting to break into a smile at any moment

This was "The Original Death and Burial of Cock Robin” and the tableau was an immediate success with the customers of the White Lion when it was first displayed in a summerhouse behind the inn in the summer of 1861

yet attractively designed show card

Origin: Persia/Western Iran/Iraq/Turkey

H-stretcher and original black painted finish

A Large c.1800 Italian Polychrome Painted & Giltwood Carved Pricket Wall Light antiques perhaps waiting to break intoOrigin: Italian Period: Late Eighteenth Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1790 1810 Height: 24. 5 inches Width: 11. 5 inches Depth: 19 inches (all at maximum) The large and chunky polychrome painted and gilded pricket sconce formed of ancanthus leaves and scrolls, the fluted whole mounted on a conforming shield shaped base, the whole terminating in a shaped metal iron pricket and drip pan surviving from the zeniths of eighteenth