An Amusing Stylised Mid-20thC Painted Papier-Mache Model of a Fly Agaric Toadstool

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An Amusing Stylised Mid-20thC Painted Papier-Mache Model of a Fly Agaric ToadstoolOrigin: British Period: Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1950 70 Height: 20. 5 Diameter at Top: 23 (both approximate) The wonderfully fun highly stylised and over sized hand crafted and painted papier mch model of a fly agaric mushroom (Amanita muscaria), in the distinctive scarlet red and white colourway with white spots, freestanding, survives from the middle section of the twentieth century. Remaining in relatively good overall

The key to the reverse is legible

All ABC cinemas would have used identical signs

and to the masks in particular

his school became a venerable British institution

A hooded crow sat on an elm:

The hand at work here is very accomplished

where can be found in 1861 at 16 Black Horse Yard

This craze for the natural form is seen in this particular lantern with its flowering leaf finial

The colour ways of navy

There is one repair to the lower plinth where it has been re-attached but this isn’t visible nor weak

crazing and general wear

The condition of the ladder is totally original so remains un cleaned and un restored so decoratively it is delightful with splattered colours of paint visible

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