A Fine Early 19thC Italian White Marble Garden Urn c.1800-20 poa-item having a rope-twist rail back

having a rope-twist rail back and rear sabre legs surviving in untouched condition from Regency period England

the Mariner shoots the bird ("with my cross-bow / I shot the albatross")

for an education that usually included little more than the ‘three Rs’

especially as she has good glass eyes

The top has some old restoration and the surface overall showing signs of worn away layers of paint

A Fine Early 19thC Italian White Marble Garden Urn c.1800-20 poa-item having a rope-twist rail backOrigin: Italian Period: Neoclassical Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1800 20 Height: 16. 5 Diameter: 26. 75 The finely carved white marble garden urn, in two sections, having a leaf carved rim above a shallow bowl, the underside decorated with dragons, stylised shells and coats of arms, with a ribbon and floret border, the triform base carved with scrolling acanthus leaves, rosettes and with lion's paw feet, the whole surviving from the first quarter of