A Well Carved & Painted Solid Oak 17thC Style Wall Cupboard sub-Curios with bright red lips

with bright red lips

Similar to Walter Crane’s ‘Almond Blossom and Swallow of 1878’

The vivid red only returns in this example as a ground colour on the outer border meaning that the rest of the ground is made up of apple green

Whilst the tale of Philip is tragic

the label in latin reading ‘Adamsia palliata on Eupagurus Bernhardus Commensalism’ and further makers label for T Gerrard & Co Ltd

A Well Carved & Painted Solid Oak 17thC Style Wall Cupboard sub-Curios with bright red lipsOrigin: English Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1910 30 Height: 22. 5 inches Width: 33. 5 inches (at cornice) Depth: 10. 5 inches (at cornice) In the seventeenth century style, having two profusely carved panelled doors with floral sprays and grape bunches, the double cherub mask brass drop handles opening to reveal two separate cupboard spaces with a shelf to each, the doors bordered with rope twists under a cornice with