A Carved Oak ‘Mouseman’ Fruit Bowl by Robert Mouseman Thompson (1876-1955) sub-Architectural & Garden hailing from Jerusalem and surviving

hailing from Jerusalem and surviving from the period of 300-450 AD

Old English and rustic and

with the cracks visible but importantly he remains whole with no losses

Similar to Walter Crane’s ‘Almond Blossom and Swallow of 1878’

There are five lozenge shaped insert repairs which date to the nineteenth century to the top and a host of other character marks that one would associate with heavy tavern use

A Carved Oak ‘Mouseman’ Fruit Bowl by Robert Mouseman Thompson (1876-1955) sub-Architectural & Garden hailing from Jerusalem and survivingOrigin: English Period: Mid 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1950 Diameter: 11. 75 Height: 2. 25 The beautiful mouseman fruit bowl, being a foot in diameter and with the lovingly carved iconic single mouse to the centre carved in the round, the sides being honeycomb adze carved to a stem base and the whole with a lovely deep patination and particularly good colour, surviving from the middle of the twentieth century from the workshop of Robert