A Large c.1800 Italian Polychrome Painted & Giltwood Carved Pricket Wall Light antiques Revelry was once more in

Revelry was once more in fashion and the public's taste was all for amusement and novelty

The company was best known for their bags such as this one

a further re-modelling of the site took place

This was "The Original Death and Burial of Cock Robin” and the tableau was an immediate success with the customers of the White Lion when it was first displayed in a summerhouse behind the inn in the summer of 1861

Alfred Horton died in 1886 and the business was then carried on by Harry Allday alone

A Large c.1800 Italian Polychrome Painted & Giltwood Carved Pricket Wall Light antiques Revelry was once more inOrigin: Italian Period: Late Eighteenth Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1790 1810 Height: 24. 5 inches Width: 11. 5 inches Depth: 19 inches (all at maximum) The large and chunky polychrome painted and gilded pricket sconce formed of ancanthus leaves and scrolls, the fluted whole mounted on a conforming shield shaped base, the whole terminating in a shaped metal iron pricket and drip pan surviving from the zeniths of eighteenth