A Unique Folk Art Gesso Pine & Papier-Mâché Half-Size Articulated Figure of a Human Skeleton c.1900-20 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus 5” Width: 47”Depth: 22” (all

5” Width: 47”Depth: 22” (all at extremities)The exquisitely crafted Swedish Empire birch and birds eye maple wood secretaire chest of substantial proportions and heavy build quality

Particularly with the emergence of controversial machines used to harvest sponges

Canova also produced another version between 1808 and 1809 for Eugène de Beauharnais

and her name was applied both to money and to its place of manufacture

As the leading Windsor chair authority William Nutting once said 'by the fireside it speaks much of "old forgotten far off things"

A Unique Folk Art Gesso Pine & Papier-Mâché Half-Size Articulated Figure of a Human Skeleton c.1900-20 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus 5” Width: 47”Depth: 22” (allOrigin: English Period: Edwardian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 20 Height: 47 Width: 10 Depth: 5 The unique early 20th century folk art half size skeleton, at almost four feet high, having jointed limbs, the whole hand crafted in gesso and papier mch over softwood, for theatrical (puppet), medical or artistic purposes and terminating in a painted knop hanging finial, surviving from the first quarter of twentieth century England. The skeleton is in