and intellectualism and was instrumental in establishing the style of Art Brut
which originated as a co-operative society for military officers in the nineteenth century
We cannot see a signature
employing bolts to fix arms and backs from the mid 18th-century onwards
The acorn finial has been re-attached at some stage and there are a couple of chips to the inside of the cover
A Grecian Style Copper & Pine Domed Architectural Cupola c.1870; Ex Codford Manor sub-Antiques and intellectualism and was instrumentalOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Codford Manor, Wiltshire, UK Date: c. 1870 Diameter: 30 Height: 60 The large and hugely decorative copper dome cupola, at five feet high, over an applied band of scroll foliate and pillar decoration, raised on pine baluster turned supports with a turned spindle gallery enclosing inverse curved panels, the whole with exceptional patina and verdigris and salvaged from Codford Manor, Wiltshire, England.