When The City Fell; Unique sub-Decorative Objects The Royal Society for the

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Height: 55 inches

The mid-nineteenth century set of four matching spindle-back black painted plank seated pine chairs of relatively small proportions with slatted knife backs each naively stencil decorated with bird and tulip flower motifs to the top crest rails and a wriggle motif with polka dots to the lower

is so called after the dark hues of Malabar teak and rosewood from which the furniture was made

When The City Fell; Unique sub-Decorative Objects The Royal Society for theOrigin: English Period: George II & Late 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1750 & c. 2000 Width: 12 Depth: 10 Height: 17. 5 (all at extremities) The large and fine stuffed and mounted barn owl (Tyto alba) specimen*, poised in a resting position upon an English classically carved limestone architectural capital fragment depicting acanthus with traces of paint, the whole a sculptural concoction surviving from the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.