A Group of Four Mid-20thC French Painted Stone Garden Mushrooms c.1950-60 sub-Macabre- Medicine Depictions of hourglasses in art

Depictions of hourglasses in art survive in large numbers from antiquity to the present day

There is a tear to the presentation box

the work signed on the reverse for Emile Buzon

a fantastic dry texture with a limey hue akin to 16thC oak

with old repairs and losses only where expected

A Group of Four Mid-20thC French Painted Stone Garden Mushrooms c.1950-60 sub-Macabre- Medicine Depictions of hourglasses in artOrigin: French Period: Mid 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1950 60 Heights: 7, 10, 10, 14 Diameters: 8, 8, 8, 16 The wonderfully fun stylised and over sized hand painted composition stone models of fly agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria) each in the distinctive scarlet red and white colourway with white spots, having ribbed bodies, each freestanding, surviving from the middle section of twentieth century France. Remaining in good overall condition,