A Decorative Continental c.1800 Painted Trumeau Mirror sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage Medical students relied on these

Medical students relied on these figures because they provided a good representation of what the anatomical model looks like

Thus bragged the big Bird

from the residence of a Wiltshire Rectory

the whole raised on turned tapering front and rear sabre legs headed by floral paterae

Fantastically decorative and tremendously evocative of the very early fairground

A Decorative Continental c.1800 Painted Trumeau Mirror sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage Medical students relied on theseOrigin: French or Dutch Period: Empire Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1800 20 Height: 28. 75 inches Width: 11. 25 inches (at maximum) The hand painted moulded frame, sectioned in yellow and ebony and decorated to each with floral sprays and centred by an oil still life panel on a dark ground depicting flowers in a vase, the panel above a rectangular mirror plate, with the original foxed plate glass survives from the early nineteenth century. The mirror