An Interesting Part Set of Mid 19thC Neapolitan Moulded Plaster & Straw Filled Creche Figures sub-Antiques and one of the last

and one of the last he designed

the wooden fairground seat from a children`s Noah’s Ark roundabout formed as a two horse led chariot with barley-twist brass handrail surviving from the second quarter of the twentieth century is presented in the original red

Depth: 24 inches (all at maximum)

The painting is decorative as is but could be extensively cleaned

He admitted that while the executions were frightening he saw them as a break from the monotony of labour and starvation

An Interesting Part Set of Mid 19thC Neapolitan Moulded Plaster & Straw Filled Creche Figures sub-Antiques and one of the lastOrigin: Naples, Italy Period: Mid Nineteenth Century Provenance: Chastleton House, Oxfordshire, UK Date: c. 1850 Figure Heights: 14 & 17 inches respectively The part set of Neapolitan moulded plaster and straw filled crche figures, comprising two standing males and a cow, all on rectangular section wooden bases survive from mid nineteenth century Naples. The condition of the figures is poor but hugely decorative, the clothing now almost entirely lost,