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
18th Century Māori Chief "Poear Joe" Sailor Maritime New Zealand Oceania
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Late 18th century naively portrayed painting of a New Zealand Māori Chief titled “Poear Joea”. It’s painted on thin parchment paper and bares reference to the artist “H Heasham” or “...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century New Zealand Paintings
Materials
Parchment Paper
Victorian Gothic Revival Cast Iron Orangery Green House Pillars Console Table
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A collection of six Victorian Gothic pillars, likely from a Orangery or Greenhouse with their flat backs and tops to take heavy stone work surfaces.
We have used four of these in ou...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Pedestals and Columns
Materials
Cast Iron
Oversized Edwardian Manicule Pointing Hand Fairground Dart Saloon Sign Folk Art
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A very rare and untouched painted pine fairground sign in the form of a pointing hand.
The sign is doubled sided, a red ground sleeve with gilt lettering for Shurrett's Traditional...
Category
Antique Early 1900s English Edwardian Carnival Art
Materials
Pine
Ethnographic Tribal Art Salampasu Mask Democratic Republic of The Congo
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A fine Salampasu Mask, housed on a later steel stand
The Salampasu people live east of the Kasai River, on the frontier between the Democratic Republic...
Category
Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
Gothic Pugin Gilt Carved Elements From the House of Lords Chamber Ceiling
By Pugin
Located in Lowestoft, GB
From Pugin’s roof a collection of carved elements from the House of Lords chamber ceiling restoration in the January of 1981.
These have been recently acquired directly from a perso...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century British Gothic Revival Architectural Elements
Materials
Pine
Circa 1830 The Young Ladies Mirror Charming Moralistic Paper Riddle Puzzle
Located in Lowestoft, GB
The Young Ladies Mirror is a charming, moralistic paper puzzle similar in construction to on advent calendar, each square with hand-written clue flips up to reveal the answer, writte...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English George IV Games
Materials
Paper
Ancient Egyptian Cartonnage Painted Mummy Fragment 3rd Century BC Ex Malcolm Hay
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A plaster and hessian specimen, from the Cartonnage of a mummy 3rd Century BC.
Housed in a glazed veneered burrwood frame with gilt trim. The specimen has a hand penned label within...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Egyptian Egyptian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Natural Fiber, Plaster
Rare & Early 20thC Flash Original Art Tattoo Card Skulls Indians Religious Curio
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A very rare and early turn of the century hand penned Tattoo artist flash card, English in origins.
The paper used is a thick almost card like material, the ink is a strong contras...
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Paper
Early 20th Century Gothic Revival Bronze Opaline Standard Floor Lamp Light
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A early 20th Century Gothic Revival floor lamp, on hardwood stepped base.
Bronze decorative stem, with a fluted and reeded opaline glass shade.
Age related oxidation to all the br...
Category
Early 20th Century English Gothic Revival Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Large Mid 20th Century Brass & Copper Framed Concave Optical Distortion Mirror
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A large concave mirror, bound in its original copper frame, with a later steel and brass hanging plate.
Originally from a large military search light, the mirror is etched in the c...
Category
Vintage 1950s English Wall Mirrors
Materials
Brass, Copper
Circa 1930's 4 Regency Art Deco Style Toleware & Brass Wall Sconces Up Lighters
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A run of four large toleware and brass uplighter, with there original painted finish and oxidised spun and cast brass elements.
Of extremely good quality, with small opaline glass r...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Metal, Brass
Early 20th Century Fijian Ceremonial Fork or 'Bulutoko' Oceania Ethnographic
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Bulutoko, also known as a cannibal fork, these were specialised four-pronged forks from Fiji, traditionally used by chiefs and priests for consuming human flesh.
Later mounted on a ...
Category
Early 20th Century Fijian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Hardwood
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