A Wonderful c.1850s Black Painted Cello Case; R.Macleay Esq. by S.A.Forster Soho Sq. London sub-Decorative Objects Modelled as Pierrot/Pierrette

Modelled as Pierrot/Pierrette

There is a gallery label verso which dates the picture and reads “Roberson and Miller…Manufacturers of water and oil colours

mischievous grins

men with enough scholarship to give them judgment and enough religion to make them conscientious

peacocks and fritillaries to a stag beetle and two dragonfly

A Wonderful c.1850s Black Painted Cello Case; R.Macleay Esq. by S.A.Forster Soho Sq. London sub-Decorative Objects Modelled as Pierrot/PierretteOrigin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1840 60 Height: 51 Width: 19 Depth: 13 Designed to be portable, yet strong, the black painted cello case formerly of the estate of a certain R. Macleay whose name is painted in the original painted lettering, with an older owner, whose name is undecipherable beneath it (C. N. Ba??), the whole retaining the original fitted interior with turquoise blue felt lining, turned stays for the