A Group of Four Mid-20thC French Painted Stone Garden Mushrooms c.1950-60 sub-Macabre- Medicine mounted on a velvet square

mounted on a velvet square plinth base and surviving from the first quarter of twentieth century France

the carcass with good patina to the original painted surfaces having been used in an educational or place of work setting

and Animated Nature" By Oliver Goldsmith

She has been relined on a new stretcher and the painting is apparently unsigned

the base unmarked

A Group of Four Mid-20thC French Painted Stone Garden Mushrooms c.1950-60 sub-Macabre- Medicine mounted on a velvet squareOrigin: French Period: Mid 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1950 60 Heights: 7, 10, 10, 14 Diameters: 8, 8, 8, 16 The wonderfully fun stylised and over sized hand painted composition stone models of fly agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria) each in the distinctive scarlet red and white colourway with white spots, having ribbed bodies, each freestanding, surviving from the middle section of twentieth century France. Remaining in good overall condition,