About The School for Scandal
Originating from a background in fine art, we simply endeavor to acquire what we could not live without, obsessed by scale, color, deterioration and the odd thing that may provoke.
Established in 20131stDibs seller since 2019
VAT ID
GB320010391
Featured Pieces
20th C Trio Modernist of Carved Marble Decorative Architectural Elements
Located in Lowestoft, GB
20th century trio of carved marble decorative elements with a modernist feel , previously part of larger interior architectural feature or fireplace
The sections are extremely well ...
Category
20th Century English Architectural Elements
Materials
Marble
19th C Mouse Curiosity Cavendish Tomb Taxidermy William Bentinck Prime Minister
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A wonderful little Victorian curiosity.
A peaceful looking mouse skeleton lays in a glazed mahogany case, with a ink inscription on the back that we believe to be copied word for wo...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Taxidermy
Materials
Natural Fiber
19th C Anthropomorphic Chameleon
Crustacean Taxidermy Scene Walter Potter
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A rather unusual late 19th century anthropomorphic taxidermy scene, very much in the manner of Walter Potter (2 July 1835 – 21 May 1918)
The scene shows a Nautilus shell as a carria...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Taxidermy
Materials
Natural Fiber, Glass, Pine
Huge 19th C Sculptural Coiled Taxidermy Snake Burmese Python Natural History
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A huge mid 19th century taxidermy python, in a natural coiled pose with head aloft.
Extremely well sculptured, with glass eyes and housed on its original ebonised wooden backing boa...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Taxidermy
Materials
Natural Fiber
Collection of 47 19th Century Dried Grass
Wheat Specimens Herbarium Botanical
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A large collection of 47 mid 19th century dried grass & wheat specimens, all with their original card labels.
Each specimen has later been mounted on verdigris green painted canvas...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Scientific Instruments
Materials
Natural Fiber
19th Century Oversized Huge Folk Art Full Leather Trade Show Sign Balmoral Boot
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A oversized full leather replica of a balmoral boot, likely to of been used in a great exhibition/trade show when the balmoral boot was made popular after it was created for Prince A...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Folk Art Signs
Materials
Leather
19th Century Dried
Foraged Seaweed Specimen Botanical Book Natural History
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A very beautifully filled sketchbook published by Rooke & Co of London, of dried and preserved sea weeds with hand penned species.
10 pages all full with multiple specimens, with o...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century British Taxidermy
Materials
Natural Fiber
19th Century Coffin Makers Undertakers Sizing Template Board Curio Macabre
Located in Lowestoft, GB
19th Century undertakers sizing/reference template board.
Carpenters and Undertakers often used human-based units of measurement (anthropometric units). And this would ring true whe...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Scientific Instruments
Materials
Pine
Early 20th Century Mendi Compensation or Revenge Doll Loloata Tribal Art
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A Mendi 'Compensation' or 'Revenge' Doll, traditionally made with pandanus leaves, bilum string, shells, wood, seeds and objets trouve with pigments.
These dolls represent individua...
Category
Early 20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
19th Century Continental Ebonised
Ormolu Decorated Marble Topped Cupboard
Located in Lowestoft, GB
19th Century continental cupboard, original veneered ebonised finish with cast bronze ormolu decoration and its original marble top.
A small repair to one of the corners to the marb...
Category
Antique 19th Century European Cupboards
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Mid 19th Century English Country House Charles Hindley
Sons Sofa / Chaise
By Charles Hindley
Sons
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A mid 19th century sofa / chaise by Charles Hindley & Sons of 143 Oxford Street London c1860, with a wonderful faded country house look. Signs of elderly woodworm, long vacated.
Bu...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Chaise Longues
Materials
Hardwood
Early 19th Century Chinese Gouache on Pith Paper Portrait Noble Royal Gentleman
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Early 19th century Chinese full length portrait of a seated gentleman, likely of noble or royal descent.
Gouache on pith paper housed in a glazed early 20th century ebonised frame.
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Category
Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
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