A Rare Pair of Gilt Polychrome Armorial Painted Galvanised Steel Grocery Bins c.1890 antiques filmic or dramatic decorative effect

filmic or dramatic decorative effect meaning it can be used as anything from the focal point of a room to a madcap table or unconventional storage chest

The use of the dark background was a common trend used by still life artists that only really changed with the likes of Monet’s works and Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in 1888

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A Rare Pair of Gilt Polychrome Armorial Painted Galvanised Steel Grocery Bins c.1890 antiques filmic or dramatic decorative effectOrigin: UnknownPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890Width: 20Height: 26Depth: 19. 5 (each)The large and very decorative pair of galvanised steel log bins, each hand painted and gilded with the armorials for The Worshipful Company of Grocers and the Royal Coat of Arms to fern green grounds with scrolled borders, the wholes with slanted hinged lids with integral handles and surviving from late Victorian England. The bins are in