A Scarce French Painted Wrought Iron 'Saint Saveur' Bistro Table by Grasin à Arras c.1885

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A Scarce French Painted Wrought Iron 'Saint Saveur' Bistro Table by Grasin à Arras c.1885Origin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1885 Height: 28 Diameter: 24 The charming time worn painted wrought iron Grasin Arras bistro table having a circular top raised on bent supports united by a triform stretcher with cast maker's marks terminating to lion's paw feet, the whole retaining its original layers of painted decoration and displaying a wonderfully distressed surface developed through decades of use and weathering

The Tortoise

the feet being art deco inspired angular pyramid blocks

Presented to young ladies by their sweethearts and beautifully decorated

Canvas Width: 6

Similar to Walter Crane’s ‘Almond Blossom and Swallow of 1878’

A very atmospheric and distinctive portrait

when they migrate back to their breeding grounds in Scandinavia

Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England

and verso having labels for Stewart & Co Picture frame maker and artists' colormen 55 Baker Street

being one of the two symmetrical pilasters that would have been attached to the legs that supported the top shelf mantelpiece

The genius of any Indian sculptor lay in his visualisation of the deities' ideal proportions

The feet are original to the piece though do have some repairs to them with two feet having had hairline cracks at some point