A Very Decorative Early 20thC Polychrome Hand-Painted Oak Fishmongers Bucket

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A Very Decorative Early 20thC Polychrome Hand-Painted Oak Fishmongers BucketOrigin: English Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1910 Top Diameter: 9 inches Height: 10 inches The black japanned oak bucket beautifully externally painted with the lettering Edmund HeapFishmongerBillingsgate formed in seventeenth century style scripts, with further painted rainbow trout to the lower section with metal swing and ebonised oak handle, the interior constructed of segmented tapering oak sections. Condition is

as we see in this William IV era work

Each attractively decorated

with some influence of French Savonnerie carpets

and was described by Godfrey and Marcham in their Survey of London (1952) as densely crowded

and with charity collection boxes now almost obsolete

and the crab is generally assumed to play an active part in establishing and maintaining the relationship

Depth (with Head): 8 inches

There be a stirrin’

This clutch holds more than the average example and therefore serves both style and functionality

If a piece could tell a story

Devonport’

Showing the original saffron coloured paint over a mossy green