A Naïve English School Oil on Board Still Life Study c.1900 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews This is exquisitely carved and

This is exquisitely carved and is certainly more of a heraldic rather than a tourist ornament

the lead with a nice patination and some oxidization to places but with no losses or damage to speak of

but it is rumored they were invented in Greece many years ago with clamshells having featured as birdbaths all over the world

here we see the original Georgian paint and the original brass mounts

A Naïve English School Oil on Board Still Life Study c.1900 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews This is exquisitely carved andOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900Height: 21. 5Width: 26. 5Depth: 1Painted in oils on board in the nave style, the charming depiction of a still life consisting of a scrolled and fluted classical urn, open book and horn rimmed reading spectacles, upon a washed sea green and sand coloured ground, the whole presented in a later white painted frame, and surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth century. The painting