A George II Period Carved & Gilded Wood & Gesso Fragment c.1730 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles with the eye sockets being

with the eye sockets being vacant and the thick tousled hair are similar

This is a near antique piece

Together with his patron

Cakes” with the rear panel reading simply “Fry’s Chocolate

the plaster figures showing the Madonna and Child in standing position survives from a pre-Victorian period ecclesiastical setting

A George II Period Carved & Gilded Wood & Gesso Fragment c.1730 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles with the eye sockets beingOrigin: EnglishPeriod: George IIProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1730Width: 45. 5Depth: 6Height: 12 (all at extremities & with backing board)The giltwood and gesso hand carved fragment, still of good imposing size, having been part of a larger composition, showing a heraldic eagle amongst foliage and a large flower head to a scaled sea serpent all above a helix twist frieze, having remnants of a pully or wench system to the reverse, possibly surviving from