A Good Pair of c.1880 Irish School Provincial Oil on Canvas Portraits of a Gentleman & His Wife sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles More unusual being fashioned in

More unusual being fashioned in ivory rather than tan

many folding screens were being imported from China to Europe

She is paler skinned

It is much easier to find clown or pierrot dolls from the early to mid twentieth century than it is of the nineteenth century and most of these aren’t jointed like this one nor do they have nearly as much painted detail or as high a build quality as this particular example

The acronym INRI (Iēsus Nazarēnus

A Good Pair of c.1880 Irish School Provincial Oil on Canvas Portraits of a Gentleman & His Wife sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles More unusual being fashioned inOrigin: Irish Period: Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 90 Canvas Heights: 30 inches Canvas Widths: 25 inches The large unframed Irish school depictions of a gentleman and his wife, shown half length and painted in oils on canvas, presumed husband and wife, survive from the middle to latter part of nineteenth century Ireland. Both pictures are in fair to good condition and prove very decorative. They suffer from minor losses with larger