A Unique Irish Carved Fruitwood & Burl Root Folk Art Figure of a Lady Playing a Harp c.1860 sub-Mirrors & Lighting The overall patination and colour

The overall patination and colour to the soft wood (which is either pine

decoratively

Like the Civil War era saws this example is distinctive in that the handle is in a pistol grip shape

holds an open copy of the book of Pslams

A Unique Irish Carved Fruitwood & Burl Root Folk Art Figure of a Lady Playing a Harp c.1860 sub-Mirrors & Lighting The overall patination and colourOrigin: IrishPeriod: Mid VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1860Height: 15Width: 6. 5Depth: 4The extraordinary and unique primitive folk art figure of a lady playing a harp, her face wonderfully expressive, being hand carved from fruitwood and using the burls of the wood to form parts of the figure naturally, flowing to an integral circular base, the whole surviving from nineteenth century Ireland. The condition of the figure is good considering the