A Mid-19thC Victorian Period Floral Still Life Velvet Painting c.1850 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus or do with out" is

or do with out" is symbolic of this outlook

It remains rather charming overall and with there being no tears or rips it could be used as is

Prince Imperial

The fielded paneled sides are unusual however and signal a much better quality period painted piece than what one would normally expect

as you are ever likely to see

A Mid-19thC Victorian Period Floral Still Life Velvet Painting c.1850 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus or do with out" isOrigin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1850 Height: 27. 5 Width: 23 Depth: 0. 75 The early Victorian floral still life depicting a myriad of flowers and foliage in wondrous colours, painted on velvet and sometimes coined as theorem, with two butterflies and a birds nest laden with eggs, the flowers within a fluted vase atop a ledge and held within a period burr maple frame surviving from the late nineteenth century in