This stools design is similar to Moorish examples made by Liberty in both the 1890s and early Twentieth century and follows on from the hugely popular Thebes stool
groove turned rim band and a lovingly executed blacksmith sheet metal patch repair to one flank to mend a crack
The faux wood trick cane with the handle and ferule both unscrewing to allow the metamorphism to a fully operational camera tripod with telescopic legs
‘10 Tons Hand Accident Crane
An Oil on Board Portrait of Augustus William Dubourg, Playwright, by R.S. Moseley RA c.1912 sub-Antiques This stools design is similarOrigin: English Period: Edwardian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1912 Height: 15. 25 Width: 13. 5 Painted by R. S. Moseley (RA), in oils on board, the head and shoulders portrait of Augustus William Dubourg, playwright and author, shown in a camel coloured jacket and green tie with white shirt, in his elder years, on a dark ground. the work presented unframed and unrestored, with the artists monogram in scarlet red lower left, the whole surviving from