An Attractive Carved & Gilt Decorated 19thC Continental Limewood Torchère sub-Decorative Objects If you like your furniture

If you like your furniture to tell a story

From the very beginning of Greek history

the arch having applied carved decoration

Cyrtocarenum rufidens”

having the original iron carrying ring handle to one flank

An Attractive Carved & Gilt Decorated 19thC Continental Limewood Torchère sub-Decorative Objects If you like your furnitureOrigin: French or Italian Period: Mid Late 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 90 Height: 36 The Base: 15 x 14 The Top: 13 x 8. 25 The well proportioned limewood torchre with traces of the original gilding to the carved decoration, having a rectangular shelf top over a waisted triform column profusely carved with C scrolls, acanthus and oak leaf trails, on a tripartite base with central shells to scrolled feet raised on blocks, survives from