LARGE SHELL-WORK FLOWER DISPLAY AND DOME
19TH CENTURY
£6,930
Auction: Day Two: 23 February 2023 | From 10am
Description
of large scale, with a shell-veneered and openwork urn issuing a tall densely packed flower arrangement composed of a variety of shells, wirework, and paper; above a ground with a glass pond, seahorses, shells, and a figure of a girl, in a large glass dome with a mahogany base
Dimensions
108cm high
Provenance
the arrangement has minor losses to many of the larger flowers but almost all the wired flowers are present. The urn base with only very minor losses, the grotto style base is mostly complete the glass dome and base in good condition overall a very large display of the type, would benefit from some minor restoration