A Late 19thC Oil on Canvas of a Still Life of Flowers & Fruit Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews Giallo di Siena

Giallo di Siena

and the Directoire/Régence pattern from the French side of the channel

Prior to that

It is probable that the earliest standing cups referred to as hanaps had turned wood (mazer-like) bowls with covers

This well sized flight of draws desirability lies in the fact that it remains unspoiled and is therefore superbly decorative as well as being inherently useful

A Late 19thC Oil on Canvas of a Still Life of Flowers & Fruit Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews Giallo di SienaOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1890 1900 Height: 21 Width: 15 Painted in oils on canvas, depicting a still life of an assortment of flowers in whites, pinks, greens blues and oranges, upon a smoky ebony ground, the posy bunched in a gadrooned pedestal vase sat on a ledge with grapes and other fruit below, the whole presented unframed and surviving from the late nineteenth century in untouched condition. The