A c.1890 Chinese Marble Topped & Gilded Hardwood Occasional Table sub-Antiques by chance met a young

by chance met a young African-American porcupine from a completely different background

This particular mask would have been affixed to the top of an outer wooden sarcophagus by means of four long wooden dowel pegs at each corner of the mask

and later became known as the ‘Brabant Fauvists’

Tailor Earth’ fabric with large drop in cushions and loose scatter cushions survives from the first quarter of the twentieth century

A c.1890 Chinese Marble Topped & Gilded Hardwood Occasional Table sub-Antiques by chance met a youngOrigin: Chinese Period: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 1900 Height: 24 inches Diameter: 17. 25 inches The hardwood occasional table having a gadroooned inset marble top and pierced carved frieze of lotus blossom flowers, the legs with dragon masks and joined by stretchers standing on ball and claw feet, the whole later gilded, survives from late nineteenth century China. The condition of the table cosmetically tired but