CARVED AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED BONE TROOP WAGON, EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Heightened in red and blue, the wagon platform on four working spoke
wheels, the delicate fretted sides applied with small tortoiseshell
roundels and joined by turned columns, surrounded by six soldiers
standing guard with moveable arms and carrying bayonettes, enclosing
nine soldiers engaged in a drill, carrying bayonettes and standing
underneath a gate with suspended target. Height 6 ⅛ inches, length 12 ¼
inches.
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