A Large 19thC Painted Plaster Portrait Library Bust of a Priest; Ex Milford House sub-Decorative Objects the oak and heater shaped

the oak and heater shaped shields having chequey 3x3 and heraldic cross fields respectively

1812 showing the Double Sweet Scented Chinese Peony (Peony albiflora Hume)

fish skins are dried in the open air or tanned

the duo were real superstars in the late 1930’s and 1940’s

A Large 19thC Painted Plaster Portrait Library Bust of a Priest; Ex Milford House sub-Decorative Objects the oak and heater shapedOrigin: Irish Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Milford house, Co. Carlow, Ireland Date: c. 1890 1900 Height: 22. 5 Width: 17 Depth: 9. 5 (all at extremities) Base: 8 square The large late Victorian plaster library bust depicting an unidentified priest, of middle to late age, possibly modelled on an Elizabethan, wearing a ceremonial robe with the pectoral cross of lorraine, the whole on a stepped socle square base, showing the original laurel green