A Unique Folk Art Gesso Pine & Papier-Mâché Half-Size Articulated Figure of a Human Skeleton c.1900-20 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews The black japanned side table

The black japanned side table displaying typical Regency elegance with splayed legs

This chair is one of their very earliest examples and is very similar to those made at the Glenister factory nearby in High Wycombe

picked them up from Alexandria

and brass escutcheon

and continuous family ownership since 1550

A Unique Folk Art Gesso Pine & Papier-Mâché Half-Size Articulated Figure of a Human Skeleton c.1900-20 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews The black japanned side tableOrigin: English Period: Edwardian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 20 Height: 47 Width: 10 Depth: 5 The unique early 20th century folk art half size skeleton, at almost four feet high, having jointed limbs, the whole hand crafted in gesso and papier mch over softwood, for theatrical (puppet), medical or artistic purposes and terminating in a painted knop hanging finial, surviving from the first quarter of twentieth century England. The skeleton is in