A Good Quality Masquerade Ball Mask in the Form of Butterfly Wings with Skull Decoration sub-Curios Verso we see the piece

Verso we see the piece is signed JAMES VI I 1566 (the birth date of this Monarch)

The oil on board presented in a distressed powder blue painted and gilt frame signed with the monogram SS lower right

The subdued palette

Pebble Prominent Buff Tip

and on the day of departure the railway stations were packed

A Good Quality Masquerade Ball Mask in the Form of Butterfly Wings with Skull Decoration sub-Curios Verso we see the pieceOrigin: English Period: Late Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1990 Mask: 8 inches high x 5 inches wide (all at maximum) The white metal framed gem set spider web effect butterfly shaped mask, beset with a plethora of white paste stones, with smaller stylised butterfly and skull motifs surmounted to the nasal bridge and tied to the reverse with a black satin band. There is some weakness to one or two junctures but overall the condition is