A French Painted Pine Side Table c.1890 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope One of the uses of

One of the uses of painting in furniture was to imitate more exotic and expensive wood grains buy painting and applying them to more accessible woods such as pine

It was important that a death mask was made as soon as possible after death so that the character of the deceased was captured before the features started to fall

perhaps at a gentlemen’s outfitters or tailors shop and it does lend itself to shop display

as he did live there for many years

game and hunstmen amidst Flemish rural countryside survive from the late seventeenth century and are presented in a good black and gilt painted frames

A French Painted Pine Side Table c.1890 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope One of the uses ofOrigin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1890 Width: 43 Height: 29. 25 Depth: 28 (all at top) The provincially made French pine carcass showing the wonderful original peacock blue and ivory white paint layers, worn thoroughly and consistently with age, with the top with five planks with remnants of the peacock blue paint, over a frieze drawer with original cup handles, opening to reveal a vacant interior, the whole raised on