An Attractive Late 19thC White Painted Cast Iron Campana Urn sub-Curios British publishing house George Philip

British publishing house George Philip & Sons was founded in 1834 in Liverpool by George Philip (1800-1882) primarily as a publisher of maps and atlases and celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1984

Collectors flocked not just because of the finery of the collection

A beautifully simple and appealing oak framed mirror

turquoise and yellow on a buff ground showing two stylised greyhounds chasing a hare with angular lettering ‘Luna Park’ above and the same in Chinese

a close friend of Marie-Antionette

An Attractive Late 19thC White Painted Cast Iron Campana Urn sub-Curios British publishing house George PhilipOrigin: British Period: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 90 Height: 17. 75 inches Basin Diameter: 17. 75 inches Base Diameter: 8. 75 inches The heavy white painted, now paled to ivory, cast iron urn with fluted and lobed tapering flared body on a square pedestal base survives from the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The whole is in well aged condition with the paint now flaking commensurate with age and weathering and