A BONE-INLAID TEAK PANEL*

DATED 1860, BY W. ROBERTS

Details

A BONE-INLAID TEAK PANEL*
Dated 1860, by W. Roberts
Centering a rectangular panel depicting Newlands with a figure in a boat on the water in the foreground and inlaid 'NEWLANDS. 1860,' within outer framing inlaid with oak leaves and acorns with rounded applied edge, the reverse inscribed Done by W. Roberts, Porter, Ruthin Castle, 1860
22 x 27in. (57 x 70cm.)

Literature

J. Ayres, Two Hundred Years of English Naive Art 1700-1900, Alexandria, VA, 1996, no. 16, p. 66

Exhibited

See lot 340.

Lot Essay

As a porter at Ruthin Castle, it is possible that Roberts used an old draining board and broken knife handles to construct this object. At least one other example of Robert's work is known depicting Chirk Castle, Denbighshire, North Wales (illustrated in J. Ayres, op. cit., p. 67, fig. 17).