A Scare & Early Carved & Painted Pine Folk Art Phrenology Head c.1850-60 sub-Art & Sculpture The escutcheons are of good

The escutcheons are of good quality and unusual to be found on a pine chest of this type and the knob handles are all original which makes for a nice change

The large oil on canvas laid to board painted in the Manner of Antonio Rimpatta Da Bologna

gadrooned top rail and frieze with fluted and turned legs having carved floral motifs and terminating in lobed ball finials survives from late nineteenth century France

The image of the crucifixion represents the death and resurrection of Jesus and serves as a reminder of our own sins and our need for redemption

This particular pair are a little more subtle in design than other more ornate examples of this period and were made to be placed on a table but there were those that could be attached to a person's clothes

A Scare & Early Carved & Painted Pine Folk Art Phrenology Head c.1850-60 sub-Art & Sculpture The escutcheons are of goodOrigin: English or American Period: Mid 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1850 60 Height: 14. 75 Base: 9 x 9 Depth: 10. 5 The folk art hand painted and carved pine phrenologist bust of generous proportions, being disproportionate and larger than life in size, on a shaped base, mapping the labeled regions of the human brain, such as lust, addiction and gullibility with each section painted within black and cream outlines on an ochre base, the whole in