Wood Pedestals and Columns

A striking and most elegant pair of Italian 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated and giltwood pedestal columns. Each pedestal is raised by its original concealed casters with an eleg...

Fern stand of 19th C William IV Style: Measures: 21" x 55".

This pair of wood pedestal origins from France, circa 1890.

"Poésie" a 19th century French Polychromed Symbolist marble sculpture A Carrare, Sienna and very rare Skyros Marbles Symbolist Sculpture Group. Figuring Poetry under the appearance of Dante and Béatrice resting on a rock, Dante holding in his hand a parchment titled "Poetry". It rests on a Neo-Renaissance moulded and hand-carved walnut rotating sellette, the barrel consists of three fluted Corinthian columns, decorated with foliage at the base, resting on a truncated column decorated with female masks connected by a drape. It’s joined, in the upper part, by arcatures with a background of foliated foliage and masks of women crowned alternately with cutout RT monogram. Moulded triangular base, with curved sides and rising from lobed angles with a frieze of oves at the base. Circa 1870 Measures: Sculpture: H. 75 CM • 29 1/2 IN. Sellette: H. 112 CM W. 44 CM - D. 49 CM H 44 1/8 IN. W 17 3/8 IN. D 19 1/4 IN. The poetry of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Beatrice Portinari, simply known as Beatrice or Beatrix, commonly refers to the muse of Dante Alighieri, whom he glorifies and loves. But she is also a woman whom, if one follows the New Life, Dante loved from his childhood, and to whom he dedicated a place in all his works. More sensitive than all is the resolute amplification which, after the pathetic force and expressionist intensity of Hell, intensifies with the more elegiac and penetrating emotion of Purgatory and leads to the miraculous triumph of the imaginary in Paradise. Of the three «hymns», it is Hell which is the most known, the most popular one can say: the taste of the picturesque, spread by the romantic criticism, is much to it. Dante, however, had the conviction, repeatedly affirmed in his poem, that by rising from one kingdom to another, he raised his poetry each time by a level which made it worthy of an ever more «high» matter. At a distance of six and a half centuries, there is certainly no obligation to share this view, however assured it may be for the poet. Anyone, however, who wants to enter the world of the Comedy must refuse the scale, eliminatory in its consequences of fact, which puts such a section above the other or brings the Comedy to a rosary of episodes more or less «beautiful» Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti...

Fine pair of 19th century Arts & Crafts oak torcheres, Robert Lorimer. A fine pair of architectural Arts & Crafts oak torchere / stands in the manner o...

Pair of faux painted pedestals, each having an open back and is faux painted to simulate marble. The center panel is flanked on the sides with split columns that rest on five inch pl...

Top of its class for a French gilt wood plant or display stand. Three-legged stand with an urn-style topper and endless other show-stopping details. Original good leaf...

Painted wooden Victorian columns in the Corinthian style with bird nests on top feature black square bases, a red and black fluted shaft, and black capital with curling acanthus leav...

Elegant Federal period reglazed fan light transom topping a pair of pilasters composed of capitals and paneled shafts. Bring it up to date by incorporat...

Swedish stone-top black pillar table stone is earlier than 1850 and has a beautiful natural rough underbelly.