An Early 19thC Finely Carved & Painted Pine Figure of a Lady in Mourning c.1800-30 sub-Antiques There are nibbled losses and

There are nibbled losses and chips

Using simulated books as cupboard doors was popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

He hoped that this might prove to be a means of releasing suppressed associations and images from the subliminal

The word 'trug' is derived from the anglo saxon 'trog'

An Early 19thC Finely Carved & Painted Pine Figure of a Lady in Mourning c.1800-30 sub-Antiques There are nibbled losses andOrigin: French Period: Empire Restauration Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1800 30 Height: 32 Width: 10. 5 Depth: 10. 5 (all at extremities) The large and beautifully carved and painted timeworn figure of a lady in mourning wearing a shrouded cloak and gown, the hood covering her eyes with her hair flowing beneath, her hands holding a wreath of laurel leaves representing the circle of eternal life, the whole in the original beautiful silver green, with a