Late 19th Century Full Boxed Set of Bone Spellicans with Hook figurative vase admiration and scandal

admiration and scandal

The paint animating every inch deepens that sense of centrality

brushes in very good

17” x 11 3/4”

though certainly it can be read as a portrayal of a classical sculpture full of life trapped forever inside a museum vitrine--and with a bit of a jack-in-the-box feel too

Late 19th Century Full Boxed Set of Bone Spellicans with Hook figurative vase admiration and scandalA nice, quite abundant set of antique bone spellicans, 1880s or so, in original box, with a good handful of them with hand painted details, mostly lending swords colorful handles, but also a few birds. I believe there are pieces for a few different sets here (as is often the case), as the point values appear in handwritten red ink on some and dark ink on others. With a bone hook included among them too. I'll never stop being drawn to sets of these, I