A Very Pretty 19thC Gilt Gesso Girandole c.1840 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage at the latter end of

at the latter end of the Art Deco period

and his adventures and antics have been the subject of many Chinese operas and puppet shows since

which would have contained an underground map

Now keeping perfect time with a newly fitted quartz movement

One or more swags would normally go at each end

A Very Pretty 19thC Gilt Gesso Girandole c.1840 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage at the latter end ofOrigin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1840 Height: 32 Width: 26 Depth: 8. 5 (all at extremities) The early Victorian gilt gesso girandole, having a shaped outline centred by rococo style shells and scrolls, with a cup and bowl geometric design, set with metal sconces, flanked by spears, on a bow front shelf apron base, the whole originally gilded and then slightly later painted with a very well established patination and