A Large Pair of 18thC Carved & Painted Oak Architectural Columns sub-Curios since masks

since masks

Recovered from an unidentified wreck and still partially enveloped with sea bed encrustations

There is a crack to the centre running through the middle which doesn’t appear to have affected the stability of the piece

This piece has both a floral and geometric theme

Gillows of Lancaster

A Large Pair of 18thC Carved & Painted Oak Architectural Columns sub-Curios since masksOrigin: English Period: Queen Anne George I II Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1700 1750 Height: 64 (each) Diameters: 9 tops The decorative and beautifully aged carved English solid oak columns or pilasters of half round form with flat squared off reverses, the rounds chamfered, both topped by a rather primitively carved acanthus leaf capital with ring turned collars, in untouched condition with remnants of painted decoration to each, probably hailing