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A Mid-19thC Victorian Period Floral Still Life Velvet Painting c.1850 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus are found among beds ofOrigin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1850 Height: 27. 5 Width: 23 Depth: 0. 75 The early Victorian floral still life depicting a myriad of flowers and foliage in wondrous colours, painted on velvet and sometimes coined as theorem, with two butterflies and a birds nest laden with eggs, the flowers within a fluted vase atop a ledge and held within a period burr maple frame surviving from the late nineteenth century in