A Mid-19thC Painted Pine Cricket Table c.1850-70 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The subject and style make

The subject and style make this piece difficult to attribute but we feel it could conceivably be English (the panels are oak for a start) but it is more likely Flemish or French in origin

These are rather special

hands and chest attests to the fact that he has been beaten with a scourge

the poison bottle of slender cylindrical form etched with the makers name and complete with the original claret red label having a ruled ebony border almost wholly intact reading POISON

The Chippendale style is often described as being an anglicised type of Rococo

A Mid-19thC Painted Pine Cricket Table c.1850-70 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The subject and style makeOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Early Mid VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1850 70Height: 27Diameter: 32The charmingly decorative black painted pine cricket table having well turned legs displaying the original black crusty painted finish with under apron, with a rustic two plank top, the whole surviving from the third quarter of nineteenth century England. In good overall order, the table simply shows light wear to the paintwork as photographed. The top