A Large & Attractive Black-Japanned Early Victorian Papier-Mache Tray c.1840 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage Prop Newspaper “Magician Beheads Teacher”

Prop Newspaper “Magician Beheads Teacher”

Piccadilly Circus

each with baluster turned pediments

the Thornapple was considered an aid to the incantation of witches

A Large & Attractive Black-Japanned Early Victorian Papier-Mache Tray c.1840 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage Prop Newspaper “Magician Beheads Teacher”Origin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1835 50 Width 28. 5 Depth: 21. 5 Height: 2 The deep dished rectangular black japanned papier mch tray with rounded corners having a black ground inlaid decorated with a bird amongst trees, heightened with gilt overall, with printed and impressed mark for Club Fine trade mark to the reverse survives from the second quarter of the nineteenth century. In comparatively good overall