A Glorious Carved Classical Regency Period Architectural Urn Finial sub-Curios This type of bag

This type of bag

A memento mori sculpture is one designed to remind the viewer of their mortality and of the brevity and fragility of human life in the face of God and nature

preserved and mounted on a ebonised two step octagonal circular wooden pedestal base showing a mature sparrowhawk feasting upon its sparrow prey

James Atkinson worked within this building

to a single fusee movement with shouldered plates

A Glorious Carved Classical Regency Period Architectural Urn Finial sub-Curios This type of bagOrigin: English or possibly Dutch Period: Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1800 20 Height: 34 inches Width: 12 inches square (the Base) Circumference: 42. 5 inches (at widest point) The generously sized unusual early nineteenth century softwood carving in the form of an urn of the Regency period, classically shaped, having a conical body, gadrooned and fluted, tapering to circular socle bases on a square plinth, the whole