A Primitive Velvet Backed Tin Wall Mirror c.1900-20

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A Primitive Velvet Backed Tin Wall Mirror c.1900-20Origin: English Period: Early 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 20 Height: 11 Depth: 0. 75 Width: 8 The primitively made tin plate wall mirror being rectangular with rounded corners and with a beautifully distressed plate to a lead border, the rear and sides clad in the original teal coloured velvet and surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth century. The mirror is in as found condition and prove wonderfully decorative, now acting more as a

and in many areas shows the base pink bole coming through

The paintings are apparently unsigned

moth and beetle

these were used in large numbers in interior decoration of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Perhaps they were enemies and came to blows

and thus focused on the ordinary rather than the ideal

the frontispiece to his set of etchings 'The Twelve Caesars' from 1606

In another moment down went Alice after it

Height: 43 inches (all at maximum)

yet somehow still conveying that they are susceptible to dying

This picture effectively does what Landseer drew attention to which was the dogs’ ‘human’ characteristics: the soulful look and gentle dignity of the bloodhound and the smooth

beautifully untouched and un-meddled with and as such is very evocative of libraries

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