A Pair of Patented Gilt Metal Mounted & Painted Glass Hanging Apothecary Display Carboys c.1891 sub-Antiques The large rectangular overmantle mirror

The large rectangular overmantle mirror having the original rectangular heavy glass plate surrounded on three sides by the giltwood beaded frame

The red seal appears to be that mimicking 董其昌 Dong Qichang 1555–1636

four hundred skulls

A rare survivor

These chairs would have been in a farmhouse deep in the Irish countryside and would have been either fireside or in the scullery

A Pair of Patented Gilt Metal Mounted & Painted Glass Hanging Apothecary Display Carboys c.1891 sub-Antiques The large rectangular overmantle mirrorOrigin: Possibly American Period: Late Victorian Provenance: The Hutton Collection Date: c. 1891 Widths: 10 Heights: 20 or 27 with chains (each) The rare and unusual pair of hanging apothecary display carboys each of generous ovoid form and formed from thick hand blown glass with swirling painted surfaces, one in a warm amber tone and the other in a deep malachite green, each mounted within a decorative gilt metal suspension collar with scalloped