A Carved Oak ‘Mouseman’ Fruit Bowl by Robert Mouseman Thompson (1876-1955) sub-Mirrors & Lighting The picture could be interpreted

The picture could be interpreted as essentially showing the metamorphism of man and machine

Faber presents the transitional period from Kneller to that of Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough

on 22 May 1870

The construction was given as a private commission to an excellent staff cabinet maker at the Royal College of Art and solid Cuban Mahogany was selected for the construction

being pleasingly heavy as fashioned in English oak

A Carved Oak ‘Mouseman’ Fruit Bowl by Robert Mouseman Thompson (1876-1955) sub-Mirrors & Lighting The picture could be interpretedOrigin: English Period: Mid 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1950 Diameter: 11. 75 Height: 2. 25 The beautiful mouseman fruit bowl, being a foot in diameter and with the lovingly carved iconic single mouse to the centre carved in the round, the sides being honeycomb adze carved to a stem base and the whole with a lovely deep patination and particularly good colour, surviving from the middle of the twentieth century from the workshop of Robert