A Very Good Victorian Aesthetic Movement Ebonised & Painted Side Cabinet c.1886 sub-Antiques which played such a central

which played such a central part in this clockwise after-dinner ritual

This rather long-winded and bureaucratic ecclesiastical Latin is essentially detailing a Papal dispensation for the wealthy Grassi family to have a particular mass for their dead

with an unresolved past given the inscription

with a natural and honest patina and deep colour which could be further brought out with some coloured wax

the specimens housed within a typical Cullingford box type glazed and ebonised case being beautifully simple with buff paper backing and lacking in simulated habitat

A Very Good Victorian Aesthetic Movement Ebonised & Painted Side Cabinet c.1886 sub-Antiques which played such a centralOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1886 7 Height: 37. 5 inches Width: 43. 5 inches Depth: 17 inches (at extremities) The moulded rectangular top with rounded corners over a pair of frieze drawers above a pair of cupboard doors, all decorated with formal ornament of stylised mythical beasts and foliage with a central urn to each door with a basket of fruit, the doors fitted with sunflower cast brass handles, stamped