A Very Pretty 19thC Gilt Gesso Girandole c.1840 antiques and to the hands and

and to the hands and feet

ten-inch terrestrial globe concerned with physics

The gilt highlights have been re-touched at some point and it is not clear how old the black top coat is

the distress to the paint commensurate with age

It is generally employed as an embrocation in bronchitis

A Very Pretty 19thC Gilt Gesso Girandole c.1840 antiques and to the hands andOrigin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1840 Height: 32 Width: 26 Depth: 8. 5 (all at extremities) The early Victorian gilt gesso girandole, having a shaped outline centred by rococo style shells and scrolls, with a cup and bowl geometric design, set with metal sconces, flanked by spears, on a bow front shelf apron base, the whole originally gilded and then slightly later painted with a very well established patination and