An Early 20thC Painted Papier-Mâché Scarecrow Owl c.1900-20 sub-Macabre- Medicine and sculptors retooled their shops

and sculptors retooled their shops to execute architectural ornament and funerary monuments

or restored

The impasto style is buoyant and the flagrant use of colour uplifting

History reveals that these types of couches have been commonly used in the confines of old institutions

Expert wheel restorer and wood turner David Byrant carried out the restoration work with the rebuilding of the bobbin whorl and a new footman

An Early 20thC Painted Papier-Mâché Scarecrow Owl c.1900-20 sub-Macabre- Medicine and sculptors retooled their shopsOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Early 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900 20Height: 8. 75Width: 4. 5Depth: 4 (all at extremities)The unique and most certainly charming hand painted decoy model of a stylised barn owl, acting as a scarecrow or bid scarer, the whole in papier mch with glass eyes and hollow form, surviving from the first quarter of twentieth century England. Remaining in good overall condition considering the fragility, the owl proves very