A Pretty George III Painted Pine Pelmet Board c.1780 antiques Length: 165cms / 5

Length: 165cms / 5

The current design of the flag dates from the union of Ireland and Great Britain in 1801

and put through the shaping machine as a complete set of four

now deemed so unfitting for pretty feet

and shortly afterwards made the acquaintance of Thomas Miles Richardson

A Pretty George III Painted Pine Pelmet Board c.1780 antiques Length: 165cms / 5Origin: English Period: George III Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1770 90 Height: 5. 5 Width: 63. 75 (at extremities) The pelmet or cornice board of elliptical shape showing the original gold and green paint colourway with gesso gadrooning to the central oval reserve of three putto, two with musical instruments of the harp and pipes and the other bearing torcheres, the flanks of flowing garlands the whole once being part of a pelmet box with pulley