A Very Pretty 19thC Gilt Gesso Girandole c.1840 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage and his adventures and antics

and his adventures and antics have been the subject of many Chinese operas and puppet shows since

we suspect from the jug being used as a posy holder

It’s decline started in the 1950s and by 1960 Morgans sales were only 35 barrels of beer and 24 spirits for the year

One chair has later rear casters

A Very Pretty 19thC Gilt Gesso Girandole c.1840 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage and his adventures and anticsOrigin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1840 Height: 32 Width: 26 Depth: 8. 5 (all at extremities) The early Victorian gilt gesso girandole, having a shaped outline centred by rococo style shells and scrolls, with a cup and bowl geometric design, set with metal sconces, flanked by spears, on a bow front shelf apron base, the whole originally gilded and then slightly later painted with a very well established patination and