An Unusual Early 20thC Novelty Carved Table Lamp Modelled as a Parrot c.1920 sub-Art & Sculpture legend and folklore

legend and folklore

but rather from the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland

Part of the fascinating mesh of colonial era India these figurines are similar to that of ships figureheads were perhaps once part of a Mandapa

of high Victoriana

An Unusual Early 20thC Novelty Carved Table Lamp Modelled as a Parrot c.1920 sub-Art & Sculpture legend and folkloreOrigin: Probably German Black Forest Period: Early 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1920 Height: 26 Depth: 8 (with shade) Base Diameter: 5 The unusual, and probably unique table lamp, having a naturalistically modelled parrot beautifully hand carved with overlapping feathers and original polychrome decoration, perched upon a turned wooden hooped pedestal whilst grasping the flex in its beak, surviving with its original scalloped frosted glass shade,