A Painted Plaster Sculpture of an Elephant & Handler; Frederick Thomas Daws (1878-1956) sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus with a few stitches in

with a few stitches in the middle reaching down to join his simple "V" shaped mouth with the deeply set black button wooden eyes also a clear indictor of his age

to cloves in apple puddings

The full mount juvenile African nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)

Starting in the Regency period one of the uses of painting in furniture was to imitate more exotic and expensive wood grains buy painting and applying them to more accessible woods such as pine

Both the top and bottom of the piece have an attractive shaped apron

A Painted Plaster Sculpture of an Elephant & Handler; Frederick Thomas Daws (1878-1956) sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus with a few stitches inOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Early 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1930 35Height: 15Width: 5. 5Depth: 16. 5 (all at extremities)The beautifully modelled painted plaster model of a large adult African Elephant with his handler atop, stood on a rectangular base; sculpted by Frederick Thomas Daws (1878 1956), the whole apparently being un signed, in a all over ochre wash and surviving from 1930s England. Remaining in sound overall condition the piece has some