A Large c.1800 Italian Polychrome Painted & Giltwood Carved Pricket Wall Light antiques This was "The Original Death

This was "The Original Death and Burial of Cock Robin” and the tableau was an immediate success with the customers of the White Lion when it was first displayed in a summerhouse behind the inn in the summer of 1861

perhaps waiting to break into a smile at any moment

Alfred Horton died in 1886 and the business was then carried on by Harry Allday alone

The paint is beautifully worn and chipped in places there is evidence of an earlier layer of paint to the piece underneath the ivory top coat

A Large c.1800 Italian Polychrome Painted & Giltwood Carved Pricket Wall Light antiques This was "The Original DeathOrigin: Italian Period: Late Eighteenth Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1790 1810 Height: 24. 5 inches Width: 11. 5 inches Depth: 19 inches (all at maximum) The large and chunky polychrome painted and gilded pricket sconce formed of ancanthus leaves and scrolls, the fluted whole mounted on a conforming shield shaped base, the whole terminating in a shaped metal iron pricket and drip pan surviving from the zeniths of eighteenth