A Pair of Carved Stone & Tôle Peinte Topiary Garden Urns c.1900 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus Having the story of this

Having the story of this doll documented with accompanying photographs is rare and wonderfully interesting and it elevates the piece to a higher level

although not all are annotated

yellow and white showland paint on a lurid green ground

Used to transport and secure gold

probably a wood chisel which leaves a characteristic wedge-shaped groove in the hard oak

A Pair of Carved Stone & Tôle Peinte Topiary Garden Urns c.1900 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus Having the story of thisOrigin: BritishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: from a Scottish Country HouseDate: c. 1900Height: 43Width: 24Depth: 18The Bases: 13 SquareThe three piece stone country house urns, being wonderfully decorative, with each urn having scrolled neoclassical handles and issuing metallic painted tole sprays of flowers with three flower heads to each, to socle supports and square bases; the wholes surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth century and from