A Mid-19thC Oak Chest of Drawers sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus The designs overtly nostalgic feel

The designs overtly nostalgic feel is further heightened by the image of the lady in period clothing and the art-nouveau style flowering border

The graffiti on this desk lid is carved with a tool fit for the purpose

though the top has suffered with a bow to the middle meaning it undulates to the centre

but in so doing lost his tail

after the Revolution had driven him in 1792 to Nancy

A Mid-19thC Oak Chest of Drawers sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus The designs overtly nostalgic feelOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1850Width: 37Height: 39. 5Depth: 18The wonderfully coloured oak carcass with a beautifully aged patination having an arrangement of two short and three long graduated cockbeaded drawers with turned knob handles and an unusual triple banded top frieze to a shaped lower apron and standing on bracket feet, the whole surviving from early Victorian period England. The chest shows some generic