An Intriguing 19thC Continental School Oil on Canvas of Revellers Fleeing from a Ghostly Apparition sub-Antiques The box has recently been

The box has recently been fitted with a new tooled leather writing surface

and the flourishes on the text are very late Victorian in style

with one corner still tied in a knot

An engaging and personal little silver treasure

gradually becoming reddish-brown

An Intriguing 19thC Continental School Oil on Canvas of Revellers Fleeing from a Ghostly Apparition sub-Antiques The box has recently beenOrigin: Continental, Probably Flemish Period: Mid Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1860 80 Canvas Height: 13. 5 inches Canvas Width: 17. 5 inches Painted in oils on canvas, the lively composition showing a group of revellers in period dress captured in shock and surprise, fleeing a ghostly masked and cloaked apparition center right, and duly fleeing out of two doors, one at the top of a flight of stairs, is apparently unsigned.