Two Stunning Calcutta Company School Studies in Watercolour of Indian Fauna; A Frog & A Fish by Shaikh Abdullah c.1800 sub-Architectural & Garden 1900 holy water glass bottle

1900 holy water glass bottle with suspended metal cross in the solution and corked top with applied paper labels showing the human skeleton

The style of the carving

The pressed metal gilded frames are original but not of the highest order

The soft thin cotton white ensign flag dating to the first quarter of the twentieth century

The wonderfully fun stylised and over-sized hand painted plaster and fibreglass model of a fly agaric mushroom (Amanita muscaria standing at three feet high

Two Stunning Calcutta Company School Studies in Watercolour of Indian Fauna; A Frog & A Fish by Shaikh Abdullah c.1800 sub-Architectural & Garden 1900 holy water glass bottleOrigin: Bengal, India Period: Early 19thC Provenance: Formerly of the Estate of Henry G. Plowden Esq. Date: c. 1800 The Works: 12. 25 x 15 each In Frames: 20 x 22. 25 each The wonderfully realised pair of Calcutta School Studies in watercolour on paper of Indian Fauna; one depicting a native frog and the other a native fish each surviving from Bengal in India at the turn of the eighteenth century and each presented framed and glazed in gilded frames