798 results found for “clothing*”

Origin: Probably FrenchPeriod: Early Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1920-30Height: 35 inchesModelled as Pierrot/Pierrette, having a cloth covered plaster face with painted eyes and lips wearing a silk clown outfit, surviving from the first quarter of the twentieth century.The condition of the doll is generally sound,...

Origin: British Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c.1910-20 (the cloth) Height: 9.25 inches Width: 9.25 inches Diameter: 5.9 inches (the cloth) A textile doll`s head, cut from the full body, originally made to produce rag doll Betty Blue, now framed and glazed...

Origin: British Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c.1920-30 Height: 18 inches Width: 34 inches Of small proportions and double hand stitched in heavy cloth, this appliqué red ensign flag would have more than likely flew from a small tug boat.There are no...

Origin: BritishPeriod: Early-Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1910-30Height: 67 inchesWidth: 137 inchesStretching to almost eleven and a half feet and double hand stitched in heavy cloth, this mammoth appliqué red ensign flag would have flown from a large ship, such as a conventional Destroyer, around a...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: George IIIProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1780Height: 34”Width: 33.25”Depth: 18.25” or 28.25” with brushing slide (all at top)The George III period plum pudding mahogany carcass of beautiful proportions with a fabulous overall colour, the caddy top over a typical bachelor type Georgian arrangement of four...

Origin: FrenchPeriod: Early/Mid Nineteenth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1840-60Length: 11 inchesHeight: 9.5 inches (to ear)Width: 3 inchesThe decorative pull along papier-mâché horse caparisoned with leather saddle cloth, stirrups and reins, with rope twist tail, inset glass eyes, long leather ears and black painted hooves, the whole...

Origin: FrenchPeriod: Mid 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: 1860-70Height: 6.5”Width: 8.5”Depth: 0.75”The good sized early glass plate daguerrotype, showing a family of four, with a boy and a girl with their parents, in its original gilded and moulded frame, the photograph and frame both now wonderfully part...

Origin: FrenchPeriod: 3rd RepublicProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1885-90Height: 15”Width: 10.5”Depth: 10.5”The un-restored French musical automaton, the vignette arranged on a ruby red velvet-covered base to a faux bamboo gilded chair, the porcelain head set with brown glass paperweight eyes, the movement functioning and when wound music...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Late-20thCProvenance: Doctor Dolittle, London Apollo TheatreDate: c.1998Height: 58"Depth: 31”Width: 48” (all approximate and at extremities)The unique and expertly crafted life-size theatre prop of an androgynous acrobatic clown with auburn bunned hair, hand painted in composition plaster, fibreglass and multi-coloured silks, the whole...

Origin: FrenchPeriod: 3rd RepublicProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1880-1900Height: 9 inchesDepth: 8 inches (all approximate and at maximum)The beautiful wax-work modelled head, in painted translucent wax with implanted human hair and glass eyes survives from late nineteenth century France.Condition wise the head is in very good order...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1880Height: 11”Width: 16”Depth: 6” (all at extremities) The wonderfully fashioned and expertly proportioned Victorian period marble carving in the form of an emerging pair of hands, showing the wrists, the subject cloaked and the whole signed F PIERCY to...

Origin: Flemish Period: Mid 18th Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c.1760 Width: 3.4 cms Height: 5.3 cms Depth: 0.7 cms The bone pendent having a hand painted provincial lady, head and shoulders to the front, marked and signed verso “Poland...?Vd. Weyden. MW.” We believe MW...

Origin: English Period: Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c.1940-50 Length: 97 inches Width: 48 inches (at top 'wings') The ivory net veil and dress having hand-sewn bell and floral decoration with flexible frame adorned with a cluster of wax flowers on stems presented...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: EdwardianProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1900-15Height: 15 inches (each)The bronzed spelter candlesticks fashioned as opposing male and female ancient Egyptian figures holding candle sconces above their heads, with drop in brass pans, on circular stepped bases, surviving from the first quarter of the twentieth century...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1890Height: 13”Width: 3”Depth: 2” (all at extremities)The late nineteenth century English pine artist's lay figure, having articulated pivoted ball joints allowing for a natural bending and turning the arms and legs, with pencil inscriptions to the reverse and the...