A Pair of Late 19thC Memento Mori Sculpted & Painted Plaster Skulls poa-item Diameter: 8” (at extremities) or

Diameter: 8” (at extremities) or 7” the bowl

the whole standing on a pea green square plinth base inscribed ‘Vinolia’

now kept in the British Museum

Tony Wooding is known mostly as a wildlife artist and lives and works in his studio in North Wales

and the smell of garlic buried with the corpse would repel it

A Pair of Late 19thC Memento Mori Sculpted & Painted Plaster Skulls poa-item Diameter: 8” (at extremities) orOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890 1900Depth: 2. 5Height: 7. 5Width: 5. 5 (each)The probably unique pair of ochre painted plaster human skulls, each primitively sculpted with accentuated features and with flat backs and integral hanging hooks, the wholes with a good patination and surviving from late Victorian England. The skulls are complete without any major losses, the paintwork nicely worn as one would expect and