An Irish coal or peat box, circa 1912, with carved satirical panels referring to Winston Churchill and the Home Rule controversy, 36 x 46 x 48cm The carved panels are probably after Punch cartoons. The top panel depicts a man (Prime Minster Herbert Asquith?) with a bird's body looking at a dead bird labelled 'Liberal Party' that has been struck by an arrow labelled 'Insurance Act'; the hinged sloping lid panel titled 'Into Smithereens, Sep 1st / [19]12', showing a smashed cheval mirror labelled 'Home Rule', above 'Master Winston "I cannot tell a lie, my little cannon did it", the cannon labelled 'Dundee speech' [15 October 1908]; the left side panel depicting a mask-backed chair labelled 'Home Rule', the mask watching a lady at a spinning wheel inscribed 'Irish Lords Reform'; the right side panel with a figure in a press labelled 'British Navy' with a map of the North Sea behind, above 'The Eternal Pressure'. (1)
An Irish coal or peat box, circa 1912, with carved satirical panels referring to Winston Churchill and the Home Rule controversy, 36 x 46 x 48cm The carved panels are probably after Punch cartoons. The top panel depicts a man (Prime Minster Herbert Asquith?) with a bird's body looking at a dead bird labelled 'Liberal Party' that has been struck by an arrow labelled 'Insurance Act'; the hinged sloping lid panel titled 'Into Smithereens, Sep 1st / [19]12', showing a smashed cheval mirror labelled 'Home Rule', above 'Master Winston "I cannot tell a lie, my little cannon did it", the cannon labelled 'Dundee speech' [15 October 1908]; the left side panel depicting a mask-backed chair labelled 'Home Rule', the mask watching a lady at a spinning wheel inscribed 'Irish Lords Reform'; the right side panel with a figure in a press labelled 'British Navy' with a map of the North Sea behind, above 'The Eternal Pressure'. (1)
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