An 18thC North Italian Polychrome Painted Centre Table / Desk c.1780 sub-Art & Sculpture a cloth permeated with plastic

a cloth permeated with plastic

which has been on a fascinating journey (and amazingly survived two trips across the Atlantic ocean)

They are structurally sound and have wear to the paint commensurate with heavy use having been picked up and put back down again many a time in the chemists shop

whilst the British navigator Sir Francis Drake passed through Maluku on his circumnavigation of the world

who applied for a patent of a petalled horn in January

An 18thC North Italian Polychrome Painted Centre Table / Desk c.1780 sub-Art & Sculpture a cloth permeated with plasticOrigin: North Italian Period: Rococo Baroque Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1780 Height: 31. 5 Width: 40. 75 Depth: 22. 75 (all at extremities) The beautifully hand painted kneehole desk or centre table with five drawers about the knee having later brass knob handles, on tapering square supports, the top, back and sides with all over decoration to include line decoration and ribbon tied floral swags, with a central urn of fruit to the top, the legs with