Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 21st October 2020
Lot 242
A SET OF 19TH CENTURY ANGLO-CEYLONESE SPECIMEN WOOD HANGING WALL SHELVES POSSIBLY CAMPAIGN
Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £1600
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Description
A SET OF 19TH CENTURY ANGLO-CEYLONESE SPECIMEN WOOD HANGING WALL SHELVES
POSSIBLY CAMPAIGN, MID-19TH CENTURY
of collapsible form, the leaf carved gallery centred with a shell above four graduated shelves in satinwood, nedun, kadumberiya and sappoo, with gadroon carved edges, with turned columns and finials also in differing woods including: palm, panolo and hora, the majority of the woods are named in ink, the whole contained in a nedun wood box
the shelves: 93.1cm high, 91.5cm wide, 35cm deep
the box: 100.2 wide, 42.2cm deep