A Rare Early 20thC Painted Plaster Laughing Clown Fairground Ball-Toss Game c.1910-20 sub-Art & Sculpture The usefulness of a fire

The usefulness of a fire screen is threefold

each standing on four brass lion’s paw feet of wonderful patination and quality

The slide frame is removable from the light box via a ring pull and each slide can be moved to create a differing order

Probably once part of a games set

How fascinating the walnut is

A Rare Early 20thC Painted Plaster Laughing Clown Fairground Ball-Toss Game c.1910-20 sub-Art & Sculpture The usefulness of a fireOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Edwardian George VProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1910 20Height: 26Width: 21Depth: 16 (all at extremities)The early fairground or carnival ball game, comprising of a now fragmentary white washed plaster and hessian body with ruffled upper, to cast iron inner piping, to the original painted plaster clowns head with red highlights and conical pierrot hat, having an open mouth to act as the target for wooden balls, the whole now on a