Arthur William Head painting.

Arthur William Head, 1861–1930.

This painting was sold at Bonhams in 2001 - and hasn't been treated very well since the gavel fell..

It's an attractive work now it's clean. Beneath Chinese lantern stems sits a Meissen nodding china-man. He's chuckling at a statuette of 'Scaramuz and Columbine with a bird cage, from the "commedia dell'arte",embracing and gazing into each other's eyes, flanked by a tree, porcelain, polychromed and gilt, the base encrusted with leaves and with gilt edge, height: 18 cm. Meissen,  model by Johann Joachim Kändler 1740.'

The vase is Phoenix Ware, Thomas Forester (Thomas & Sons).