An Interesting Large c.1900 Carved & Painted Wooden Folk Art Figure; ‘Andrew’ sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles There is a gallery label

There is a gallery label verso which dates the picture and reads “Roberson and Miller…Manufacturers of water and oil colours

This rare example

Width: 135cms / 4

It was closed

Among the many influences from Pugin we find on this chair are the rosettes to the X-Frame

An Interesting Large c.1900 Carved & Painted Wooden Folk Art Figure; ‘Andrew’ sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles There is a gallery labelOrigin: English or American Period: Late Nineteenth Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1890 1910 Height: 24. 5 inches The unusually large primitive folk art naively carved soft wooden figure standing at over two feet and having jointed arms, possibly fashioned for shop display use, as a bearded negro farm worker with a quizzical look on his black painted face, having glass eyes, part leather cap and horse hair beard, with pyjama