A Large Pair of Victorian Comb Decorated Painted Pine Church Pews c.1870 sub-Macabre- Medicine standing on a stained carcass

standing on a stained carcass with gun barrel turned legs and surviving from the early to mid-Victorian period

Sir John was invested as a Commander

When seen on the market at all these tables tend to have been smeared with thick wax and it is a delight to see one having naturally aged

Jules Janin

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A Large Pair of Victorian Comb Decorated Painted Pine Church Pews c.1870 sub-Macabre- Medicine standing on a stained carcassOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1870Heights: 34 or 19 at seatsWidths: 96 Depths: 16 (at feet)The attractive pair of large painted pine pews, of ecclesiastical origin and each at eight feet long, displaying all over comb work decoration, one in a light sand colour, the other in an elephant brown grey, each with canted sides and ladder backs to stepped block feet and surviving from the third quarter of nineteenth century