Antique British Oil Painting Seascape Coast Scene Shipwreck Landscape Horses Samuel C. Bird 1870 Mid-Century Modern 916 silver purity

916 silver purity

including two armchairs

The sides of the press having a pair of corresponding acorn shaped finials and the press is titled in two places

with corresponding decoration around the edge of the case

From a Russian family who emigrated to San Francisco in 1906 and has passed through family descent since that time

Antique British Oil Painting Seascape Coast Scene Shipwreck Landscape Horses Samuel C. Bird 1870 Mid-Century Modern 916 silver purityA very good antique 19th century British oil on canvas painting, seascape coastal scene by Samuel C. Bird, circa 1870. This very attractive oil on canvas painting depicts a coastal scene with a team of Shire or Draught horses pulling a ship's main mast with chains out of the sea, after a shipwreck. A figure astride one of the lead horses is looking back to guide the horses, in the distance are two more figures walking by the water's edge. The sky is