A Pair of Late 19thC Memento Mori Sculpted & Painted Plaster Skulls poa-item Tony Wooding is known mostly

Tony Wooding is known mostly as a wildlife artist and lives and works in his studio in North Wales

jewellery or letters

but clearly someone treasured this rouwbord enough to get it the very best of care

the whole standing on a pea green square plinth base inscribed ‘Vinolia’

A Pair of Late 19thC Memento Mori Sculpted & Painted Plaster Skulls poa-item Tony Wooding is known mostlyOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890 1900Depth: 2. 5Height: 7. 5Width: 5. 5 (each)The probably unique pair of ochre painted plaster human skulls, each primitively sculpted with accentuated features and with flat backs and integral hanging hooks, the wholes with a good patination and surviving from late Victorian England. The skulls are complete without any major losses, the paintwork nicely worn as one would expect and