An Early Victorian Painted & Stencilled Pine Side Table/Washstand c.1860 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus The cloth or shroud draping

The cloth or shroud draping an urn symbolically guards the ashes as the soul departs the body for its trip to heaven

The well-sized high Victorian period ebonised wall mirror having the original sparkling bevelled edged mirror plate now foxed beautifully with age

with arched lid

always included some reference to human mortality

Nevertheless

An Early Victorian Painted & Stencilled Pine Side Table/Washstand c.1860 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus The cloth or shroud drapingOrigin: English Period: Early Mid Victorian Provenance: Gwysaney Hall, North Wales Date: c. 1860 Width: 41 Height: 32. 5 at gallery or 29 at top Depth: 21. 5 The decorative pine carcass showing the wonderful original paint being hand painted and stencilled in ivory and scarlet with line decoration and spandrels, consistently timeworn with age, having a faux marble gallery back over two frieze drawers with later porcelain handles, the whole upon turned