A Rare Pair of Large Ruabon Terracotta Roof Gargoyles; The Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Shrewsbury c.1880 sub-Religion & Relics This piece of handiwork is

This piece of handiwork is essentially a countrified version of a mahogany dining chair one would have found in the city and would look simply splendid in a farmhouse or country kitchen

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The oak is tactile and has a good colour

the whole surviving in scintillatingly original condition from nineteenth century France

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A Rare Pair of Large Ruabon Terracotta Roof Gargoyles; The Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Shrewsbury c.1880 sub-Religion & Relics This piece of handiwork isOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid Victorian Gothic RevivalProvenance: The Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK. Date: c. 1880Height: 34Width: 26Depth: 34 (all at extremities and each)The beautifully modelled and scarce pair of large mythical beasts or wyverns, in Welsh Ruabon terracotta each with sinuous legs and wings, the elongated necks with rib barbs and perched on apex tiles with scroll ends, hailing from the exterior decorations on