The signature and date of ‘63 is of course illuminating but we cannot find an artists by the name of Storch that would be appropriate for this style of work
With a faint tang of the macabre this is time-worn decorative at its best and a scarce piece of well detailed shop display
He was a student of Gabriel Ferrier and François Flameng and exhibitioned at the Salon de Paris in 1913
Perfect for the mantelpiece or the cabinet of curiosities
The seventeenth century pine and oak side table of good colour with a single frieze drawer having the original knob handle
After Robert Adam (1728-1792); A Fine Hand-Painted Classical Frieze on Silk c.1770 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope The signature and date ofOrigin: EnglishPeriod: George IIIProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1760 80Width: 67Height: 21The very finely drawn classical painted frieze on silk, after Robert Adam (1728 1792), depicting a rectangular stone plaque to the centre with a reclining female figure and an infant offering a posy of flowers, surmounted by a flowering urn, and flanked by foliate arabesques and oval stone medallions to flaming torches, each depicting a female deity, to a dark