An Interesting English Naïve School Oil on Panel of an Imprisoned Man with Wildcats c.1825-35 sub-Curios the wood is still solid

the wood is still solid

The use of reliquaries became an important part of Christian practices from at least the 4th century and provided a means of protecting and displaying relics

The tightening knobs are original to the flanks and are in working order as are the candle sconces

The miniature elongated heart shape stay busk

5 inches long

An Interesting English Naïve School Oil on Panel of an Imprisoned Man with Wildcats c.1825-35 sub-Curios the wood is still solidOrigin: English Period: Early 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1825 35 Height: 11 Width: 14. 5 Depth: 0. 75 The primitive and naive depiction in oils on thick rough hewn oak panel, showing a young man in period dress slumped to the floor and detained in a prison cell, with a lion to one flank and with his arm around a tiger to the other. with its young, the tiger licking his face, the whole surviving from the second quarter of the nineteenth