A polychrome wood model of a butcher's shop

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A polychrome wood model of a butcher's shop
hung with carcasses and joints of meat above the figures of two butchers and the butcher's boy, the butchers each holding meat knives and steels hung from their aprons, the gallery above centred by the Royal Arms in gilt metal, and flanked by potted plants with the living quarters to the back, the four glass windows reverse painted with drapes, the mahogany veneered glazed case with embossed paper slip, English, late 19th/early 20th century -- 19¾in. x 27½in. (50.2 x 69.8cm)

Literature

James Ayres, British Folk Art, Barrie and Jenkins, London 1976. Overlook Press, Woodstock, N.Y. 1977. Plate 30.

Lot Essay

A very similar lot from the Camma Bach Collection, probably by the same hand was sold in these room's on the 30th March 1995, lot 824, and an earlier comparative example was sold on the 24th October 1991, lot 73. A similar but simpler example sold from the Bertram and Nina Little Collection -- Sotheby's New York 29th January 1994, lot 94.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Edward H. Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman London 1969. Page 208, a comparative example illustrated plate 219.

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