A Painted Plaster Sculpture of an Elephant & Handler; Frederick Thomas Daws (1878-1956) sub-Art & Sculpture The Ffennell family bought the

The Ffennell family bought the 18thC house in 1926 and made further additions to the Arts and Crafts garden

and we like what we hear

Although the picture is well executed and mysterious the museum quality frame takes centre stage here for being so outrageously proportioned

He continued his routine practice daily to keep himself in good form

A Painted Plaster Sculpture of an Elephant & Handler; Frederick Thomas Daws (1878-1956) sub-Art & Sculpture The Ffennell family bought theOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Early 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1930 35Height: 15Width: 5. 5Depth: 16. 5 (all at extremities)The beautifully modelled painted plaster model of a large adult African Elephant with his handler atop, stood on a rectangular base; sculpted by Frederick Thomas Daws (1878 1956), the whole apparently being un signed, in a all over ochre wash and surviving from 1930s England. Remaining in sound overall condition the piece has some