A Charming Pair of c.1800 Reverse Glass Paint & Foil Pictures of Birds Amongst Foliage sub-Antiques and let you know I

and let you know I am still living

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there

within a stylised floral border

the carcass comprsing of a moulded rectangular top above an arrangement of eight drawers and central cupboard comprising two frieze drawers and central cupboard door flanked by two banks of two short drawers to a plinth base survives from the latter part of the nineteenth century

Two of the eight drawers (2 & 7) are annotated and these examples include

A Charming Pair of c.1800 Reverse Glass Paint & Foil Pictures of Birds Amongst Foliage sub-Antiques and let you know IOrigin: Austrian German Period: Late Eighteenth Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1790 1810 Width: 4. 5 inches Height: 7 inches (6 x 8. 25 in Frames) The delicately proportioned Georgian period reverse glass paint and foil pictures in their original ebonised frames depicting two colourful birds amongst flowers and foliage survive from the turn of the eighteenth century in the Austrian Empire. The pictures do have some areas of