A Late 19thC Bleached Pine Chest of Drawers c.1900 sub-Architectural & Garden Both portraits show Mr and

Both portraits show Mr and Mrs Backhouse on dark grounds in dark attire with affable expressions

The rest of the inscription is nigh on indecipherable but further research may prove fruitful

and as Wedgwood himself claimed

it is a symbol most commonly associated in Arabic literature with female beauty

The Painting: 67

A Late 19thC Bleached Pine Chest of Drawers c.1900 sub-Architectural & Garden Both portraits show Mr andOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900Height: 34Width: 35Depth: 19Of desirable diminutive proportions and a wonderfully naturally bleached elephant grey patina, the Victorian pine chest of drawers having a rectangular top above two short and two long drawers, each with original knob handles, and raised on stylised peg and cup feet, the whole surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth century. The drawers glide