A Pair of Mid-19thC Italian Provincial School Oil on Canvas Still Lifes of Tulips sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage and surviving from the mid

and surviving from the mid to late nineteenth century

The generously sized unusual early nineteenth century stripped pine carving in the form of a neoclassical urn

Eugène Mercier was a ‘big’ man with life-size ideas that were also useful for publicity

most often a human skull

A hugely interesting and important piece of social history and possibly the only surviving example of its type

A Pair of Mid-19thC Italian Provincial School Oil on Canvas Still Lifes of Tulips sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage and surviving from the midOrigin: ItalianPeriod: MacchiaioliProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1850Heights: 26. 25Widths: 21Depths: 1. 5Painted in oils on canvas and presented in moulded and gilded matching frames, the pair of provincial nave works, depicting still lifes of spring flowers, being mainly tulips, sat in masked and fluted urns on ledges, with chrysanthemums and other flowers depicted, surviving from mid nineteenth century Italy. The pictures remain in sound overall