A Sculptural 19thC Death Mask on Integral Pedestal sub-Curios The picture is very dirty

The picture is very dirty and if cleaned would become something entirely different

Remaining in fair to good condition there is a small area of loss to where one would open the box and also the small middle section of the hinge is absent

Written two weeks after the disaster

Suspended from the original iron mounting brackets

The base bears around 70% of its original label

A Sculptural 19thC Death Mask on Integral Pedestal sub-Curios The picture is very dirtyOrigin: English Period: Mid Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1830 60 Height: 11. 25 inches Base Diameter: 4. 5 inches Width: 6. 5 inches (at extremity) The life size parian ware (?) moulded half round death mask of a middle aged male, the reverse stamped D rusiel (?) 120 on an integral plinth socle base survives from the early to middle Victorian period. In good original condition the mask only suffers from a handful of chips, which are