A 19thC Defaced French School Oval Pastel Portrait of Lady c.1870 sub-Curios Two of the six cases

Two of the six cases are annotated and these examples are marked as

This table is of the highest order of aesthetic movement furniture

each meticulously hand sculpted to form faces

and otherwise fully detached from each other and set in their own airing courts

A 19thC Defaced French School Oval Pastel Portrait of Lady c.1870 sub-Curios Two of the six casesOrigin: French Period: 2nd Empire Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Height: 24 Width: 20 The defaced portrait of a French lady in oval form, executed in pastels on paper and laid to card, wearing a navy dress with brooch clasp, her hair tied up, her face totally and intentionally damaged, on a beautiful green grey ground, the work unframed and surviving from the third quarter of nineteenth century France. The photographs show clearly that there are