A Pair of Mid-19thC Italian Provincial School Oil on Canvas Still Lifes of Tulips sub-Mirrors & Lighting A beautifully decorative piece of

A beautifully decorative piece of revolving wall art

this is expressive and experimental mid-century sculpture at its decorative best

Alfred Barron Clay

They expressed themselves with a direct visual language

the whole of good colour and surviving from the last quarter of the twentieth century

A Pair of Mid-19thC Italian Provincial School Oil on Canvas Still Lifes of Tulips sub-Mirrors & Lighting A beautifully decorative piece ofOrigin: ItalianPeriod: MacchiaioliProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1850Heights: 26. 25Widths: 21Depths: 1. 5Painted in oils on canvas and presented in moulded and gilded matching frames, the pair of provincial nave works, depicting still lifes of spring flowers, being mainly tulips, sat in masked and fluted urns on ledges, with chrysanthemums and other flowers depicted, surviving from mid nineteenth century Italy. The pictures remain in sound overall