Chip Carving

Three small repaired breaks to apron carving. Several old chips to apron.

From crude symbols painstakingly chipped into cave walls, stone carving is a practice that has been utilized by mankind for almost 800,000 years.

From crude symbols painstakingly chipped into cave walls, stone carving is a practice that has been utilized by mankind for almost 800,000 years.

From crude symbols painstakingly chipped into cave walls, stone carving is a practice that has been utilized by mankind for almost 800,000 years.

I believe the wood is mahogany and its in very good condition but it does have a small chip in the center carving shown in the photos. The fireplace mantel has a nice large opening H...

Over the centuries you could see the age and use apparent in the detailed pictures from the fadings and the stainings of the wood , the natural shrinkage and cracks of the wood , ch...

There are a few age related marks of crackalure, tiny chip to lower left carving that appears to be original to framing, aforementioned is for accuracy as the Painting displays excep...

Each joint goes straight through the top and are seen underneath, each one also having a wedge of probably Walnut banged in after they were fitted to tighten the joint further. The d...