An Atmospheric Oil on Canvas; Anon; `Screaming Child` sub-Curios The company shut its doors

The company shut its doors for the last time at its Birmingham workshops in 2008

making this scarce example of whimsical Victorian glassware in excellent condition

the worn hand painted top panel reading ‘Embroidery Cottons

a dusting powder

traditionally used  for storing personal possessions or  indeed salt

An Atmospheric Oil on Canvas; Anon; `Screaming Child` sub-Curios The company shut its doorsOrigin: Unknown Period: Late Eighteenth Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1790 1820 Canvas Height: 5 inches Canvas Width: 7 inches Painted in oils on canvas, the fragment cut down from a larger composition, showing a full faced child with golden flowing locks, red rosy cheeks, open mouthed in distress, the head tilted looking up. Although fairly dirty, the quality of the painting is really rather good, there is a commensurate