A Very Interesting c.1890 Primitive Pine & Cast Iron Workbench from Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum, By Repute sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles There appears to be a

There appears to be a later black coat of paint and the two upper masks have brass knockers as per a piece of door furniture

and the result is a truly charming and exceptional piece of romantically charged folk art jewellery

particularly to the edges of the canvas and there is a good deal of craquelure to the surface especially around the area that surrounds the sitters face

It is a defaced British blue ensign

A Very Interesting c.1890 Primitive Pine & Cast Iron Workbench from Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum, By Repute sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles There appears to be aOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Lancaster Moor Hospital, formerly the Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum and Lanaster County Mental Hospital, by repute Date: c. 1870 1900 Width: 37 Height: 21 Depth: 19. 75 (all at extremities) The unusual, and unique, workbench table constructed primitively and primarily in pine, for the cutting of leather or raw fibres, the construction similar to that of a cobblers bench with galleried cutting