A Mid-20thC Cast Composition Stone Scallop Shell Bird Bath sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage having pierced decorative rails

having pierced decorative rails

Having said that the chair is designed to be used lightly so it’s design does not suit heavy use

and had been admired at the 1851 Great Exhibition: see Ian Jenkins

and abjured ostentation and display in the architecture and decoration of their churches

A Mid-20thC Cast Composition Stone Scallop Shell Bird Bath sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage having pierced decorative railsOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1950 60Width: 21Height: 24Depth: 19 (all at extremities & on ebonised stand) The well modelled cast stone bird bath, modelled as an open scallop shell on a spiral turned socle column and plinth base; with an added associated ebonised plinth base, the whole surviving from the middle of the twentieth century. The bird bath is in three sections so it is easily moved. It has weathering