An Early 19thC Regency Period Painted Pine Bank of Eighteen Drawers c.1820-30 sub-Curios Bismuth is brittle

Bismuth is brittle

The Sotheby’s catalogue goes on to say of the sale “Throughout the house there was the intermingling of the very fine with the more normal and the rare with the more usual

The original frame is very decorative with a good patina

Some of the sitters names to the portraits include ‘J

Part of the fascinating mesh of colonial era India these figurines are similar to that of ships figureheads were perhaps once part of a Mandapa

An Early 19thC Regency Period Painted Pine Bank of Eighteen Drawers c.1820-30 sub-Curios Bismuth is brittleOrigin: English Period: Regency Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1820 30 Width: 59 Height: 39. 5 Depth: 17. 5 (all at extremities) In very original condition, the sandy olive coloured Georgian painted flight or bank of eighteen drawers, each with the original two pin handles and remnants of hand written workshop labels, having four rows of four smaller drawers over two longer drawers, the fronts remaining untouched, with the top now mainly worn of paint,