A Unique Folk Art Gesso Pine & Papier-Mâché Half-Size Articulated Figure of a Human Skeleton c.1900-20 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews The sudden flash of delicate

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chips and losses to her layers of paint but nothing of major detrimental significance

to include an array of glass bottles ranging in date from Victorian to late 20thC

It has a more recent stretcher added to it

A vogue for theorem stencil painting began in England at the turn of the 18th century and through the mid-1800s

A Unique Folk Art Gesso Pine & Papier-Mâché Half-Size Articulated Figure of a Human Skeleton c.1900-20 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews The sudden flash of delicateOrigin: English Period: Edwardian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 20 Height: 47 Width: 10 Depth: 5 The unique early 20th century folk art half size skeleton, at almost four feet high, having jointed limbs, the whole hand crafted in gesso and papier mch over softwood, for theatrical (puppet), medical or artistic purposes and terminating in a painted knop hanging finial, surviving from the first quarter of twentieth century England. The skeleton is in