A Rare Early 20thC Painted Plaster Laughing Clown Fairground Ball-Toss Game c.1910-20 sub-Decorative Objects One of the major introductions

One of the major introductions I had to ceramics was digging Neolithic iron age and roman samien shards on archaeological digs somewhere in Wales while trying to survive as an art student in Birmingham

A very similar example to this sold at Christies in 1999 and was stamped to the reverse T

The red cross appeared as an emblem of England during the Middle Ages and the Crusades and is one of the earliest known emblems representing England

Origin: Taiwanese

often with themes of national sacrifice or patriotic heroism in keeping with the spirit of the Revolution

A Rare Early 20thC Painted Plaster Laughing Clown Fairground Ball-Toss Game c.1910-20 sub-Decorative Objects One of the major introductionsOrigin: 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