An Unusual Early 20thC Hand-Painted French Theatre Backdrop c.1915-25 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage They worked in Birmingham as

They worked in Birmingham as sheet metal workers

The Chinese frames have some scuffing and one has a small section of loss to the mouldings

the whole in un-meddled with order and surviving from the second quarter of the twentieth century

Remaining in pretty good overall condition considering its relative fragility

the wooden fairground seat from a children`s Noah’s Ark roundabout formed as a two horse led chariot with barley-twist brass handrail surviving from the second quarter of the twentieth century is presented in the original green

An Unusual Early 20thC Hand-Painted French Theatre Backdrop c.1915-25 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage They worked in Birmingham asOrigin: FrenchPeriod: 3rd Republic Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1915 25Width: 34Height: 67 The large hand painted theatre canvas backdrop, executed in a Bloomsbury Group esque maximalist nave style, upon thick cream cotton twill panels, depicting an androgenous figure holding a book, seated on a large garden urn, to highly stylised swirls and patterns to the background, using hues of blues, reds and blacks, the whole hemmed to upper and lower edges,