A carved Welsh slate door stop, decorated with concentric circles to the top and sides.

North Wales circa 1880

4¾” wide x 4¾” deep x 3” high / 12cm wide x 12cm deep x 7.6cm high

£395.00 sold

Similar pieces of carved slate from North Wales were exhibited in the British Folk Art exhibition at Tate Britain in 2014 and are illustrated in the accompanying book. See also The Carved Slates of Dyffryn Ogwen by Gwenno Caffell, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff 1983