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Painted Glass Fishing FloatDescription: Painted all round, featuring an impressive Full-Rigged Ship, a Cornish Crabber (Pilot Cutter), a Steam Liner (c1920's) and a Ketch. The glass float is of the type used in St Ives (mainly for crabbing) and dates to circa 1900-1930. Overall condition is as you would expect from an object of substantial age that has been displayed/handled/used. Painted with a typical, limited palette.A superb painted object, without doubt the single most desireable and tactile Wallis work we have ever seen. The subject seems endless as one rotates the float, and the painting on the reverse side as one looks from any direction forms a ghostly silhouette which gives a real depth of vision. Size: 5" diameter Medium: Oil paint Support: Glass Fishing Float (used) mounted on the original wooden base. Provenance: Consigned to auction (Dorset, 2008) with various effects from a Cornish estate. It has been authenticated by a Fellow of the British Association of Paintings Conservator-Restorers, who confirmed that the painting dates to c.1930 |
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