An Intriguing 19thC Continental School Oil on Canvas of Revellers Fleeing from a Ghostly Apparition sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Figure sculpture

Figure sculpture

Walter Potter was born in 1835 and began to experiment with taxidermy by the age of 15

with four opposing dummy drawers

A rather surprisingly decorative piece of vintage German mechanics

An Intriguing 19thC Continental School Oil on Canvas of Revellers Fleeing from a Ghostly Apparition sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Figure sculptureOrigin: Continental, Probably Flemish Period: Mid Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1860 80 Canvas Height: 13. 5 inches Canvas Width: 17. 5 inches Painted in oils on canvas, the lively composition showing a group of revellers in period dress captured in shock and surprise, fleeing a ghostly masked and cloaked apparition center right, and duly fleeing out of two doors, one at the top of a flight of stairs, is apparently unsigned.