Full description

A NAPOLEONIC PRISONER OF WAR CARVED AND PAINTED BONE MODEL OF GUILLOTINE with a tall decorated superstructure above a horizontal victim on a raised platform surrounded by armed guards, the base with similar guards and cannons, in a glazed and ebonised wooden case, later painted with daffodils to one side, 20.25" high. See illustration

Provenance: Private collection, Dorset and by family tradition believed to have come from Ancaster Hall, Lincolnshire

Estimate

4000 - 8000

VAT status

M

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Artist's Resale Right surcharge

No

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