Two Early Victorian Painted Pine Pedestal Chests of Drawers c.1840-60 sub-Natural History In the mid nineteenth century

In the mid nineteenth century many travelling peddlers and gypsies earned money by advertising their services as fortune tellers or ‘fate ladies’

5”Height: 15”The wonderfully sign written fairground sign of good size

The leg joints at the hip and knee are tired though they do function and the legs are to be removed

Vincenzo Gemito was an Italian sculptor and artist

the whole surviving from at least the early eighteenth century

Two Early Victorian Painted Pine Pedestal Chests of Drawers c.1840-60 sub-Natural History In the mid nineteenth centuryOrigin: English Period: Early Mid Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1840 60 The Larger: 31 h x 19. 75 w x 17 d The Smaller: 31. 5 h x 15 w x 17 d In their beautiful original sea green paint, now timeworn, the near pair of pine chests of four drawers each, formerly being the pedestals for different desks, now acting as side table chests or bedside tables, each with their original ebonised knob handles and surviving from early Victorian period