A 19thC Continental Hard Paste Porcelain Figural Lidded Jar as Mr Punch sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope Mabel “Babe” Gardener

Mabel “Babe” Gardener

This piece of quality door furniture would instantly revamp the dourest of entrances

The charming sunshine yellow painted French trinket box in the form of a rabbit

as it does not exhibit certain heaviness present in his early works

with the side leather panels weak at their edges though all benefiting from a beautiful suppleness and patination that leather of this age so beautifully radiates

A 19thC Continental Hard Paste Porcelain Figural Lidded Jar as Mr Punch sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope Mabel “Babe” GardenerPeriod: Late 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1880Height: 12Width: 6Diameter: 7The scarce hard paste porcelain figure modelled as a seated Mr Punch in an armchair formed as a lidded jar, polychrome painted with a copper lustre glazes with tassel hat cover and surviving from late nineteenth century Europe. The condition is very good with only slight wear to the painted surface, a few tiny firing faults, and no major damages. There is a paper label to