An Early 20thC French Card & Softwood Pierrot Clown Pop Up c.1910-30 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage with craquelure to the surface

with craquelure to the surface as photographed

Hand painted

Epileptic & Chronic Block

A pair that has the advantage of being able to slide into both a modern or period room setting

to give children the first educational building blocks of the English language in the early Victorian period

An Early 20thC French Card & Softwood Pierrot Clown Pop Up c.1910-30 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage with craquelure to the surfaceOrigin: FrenchPeriod: 3rd RepublicProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1910 25Height: 22. 5Width: 13Depth: 2The amusing and highly decorative printed pressed card and softwood pop up, modelled as two clowns, or Pierrots with typically brightly adorned face make up, pointed hats, shoes and costumes, the concealed clown popping up when the lower bullseye button marked depose is pressed from a wooden mechanism, to a black line decorated backing with hanging cord,