AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY PAINTED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ FRENCH FAIRGROUND...
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£650 - £750
AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY PAINTED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ FRENCH FAIRGROUND PASSÉ-BOULES BALL TOSS GAME.
In the form of a Pierrot clown, wearing a blue rimmed pointed hat, with a gaping open mouth into which one tosses balls, showing the original painted features, and with unusual glass eyes, the whole on a pink painted hanging board showing related newspaper cuttings to the reverse, to a ball tray with chalked sections at 2, 5 and 8, the whole surviving from the first half of twentieth century France. The chalk numbering is later and the ball tray is possibly a later replacement.
(h 63.5cm x w 37cm x d 25.5cm)
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£650 - £750
AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY PAINTED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ FRENCH FAIRGROUND PASSÉ-BOULES BALL TOSS GAME.
In the form of a Pierrot clown, wearing a blue rimmed pointed hat, with a gaping open mouth into which one tosses balls, showing the original painted features, and with unusual glass eyes, the whole on a pink painted hanging board showing related newspaper cuttings to the reverse, to a ball tray with chalked sections at 2, 5 and 8, the whole surviving from the first half of twentieth century France. The chalk numbering is later and the ball tray is possibly a later replacement.
(h 63.5cm x w 37cm x d 25.5cm)
