A Scarce & Early Folk Magic Specimen of a Mummified Dog in Case c.1700-1800 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews further minor losses to the

further minor losses to the boxwood stringing and some old repairs to the veneers particularly at the dividers between drawers

the timber yard

Around the time this piece was crafted

Having a wonderful balance between geometric and floral elements this is a heavily stylized piece of good solid colour and design

each having leafy scrolls and shells

A Scarce & Early Folk Magic Specimen of a Mummified Dog in Case c.1700-1800 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews further minor losses to theOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Probably Early 18thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1700 1800Height: 17Width: 23Depth: 6. 5The well preserved mummified or dried specimen of a small breed of dog with fully intact and with teeth, having been discovered in the roof of a Tudor house in Suffolk, and now presented in a good contemporary glazed box frame with dark blue paper backing and held with invisible twine, the whole surviving from the early eighteenth century