An Interesting Part Set of Mid 19thC Neapolitan Moulded Plaster & Straw Filled Creche Figures sub-Antiques is still chirpy

is still chirpy

The piece has some wear to its rather dry surface with some paint lift and it has not been cleaned

The large and fine stuffed and mounted hooded crow (Corvus cornix) specimen perched on a tripod formed stained pine primitively constructed stool is preserved and presented in the highest order

a tall umbelliferous plant found in the north of Bokhara in present day Uzbekistan

Sometimes it is added to other medicines to improve their flavor

An Interesting Part Set of Mid 19thC Neapolitan Moulded Plaster & Straw Filled Creche Figures sub-Antiques is still chirpyOrigin: Naples, Italy Period: Mid Nineteenth Century Provenance: Chastleton House, Oxfordshire, UK Date: c. 1850 Figure Heights: 14 & 17 inches respectively The part set of Neapolitan moulded plaster and straw filled crche figures, comprising two standing males and a cow, all on rectangular section wooden bases survive from mid nineteenth century Naples. The condition of the figures is poor but hugely decorative, the clothing now almost entirely lost,