Description
painted wood and fabric, comprising CHINESE BELL DANCER, 73cm x 58cm x 9cm, and POLE BALANCER with separate stool, 76cm x 54cm x 22cm (2)
Footnote
Note: The speciality act figures in the complete Tiller-Clowes troupe included a juggler, a pole-balancer, three Chinese bell-ringers, two stilt-walking drunken clowns, an expanding skeleton and a trick puppet with three heads. In a programme, these would have been used by the marionette showman as 'curtain-raisers', before the main play, or as 'entre-actes' between plays. [V&A]