Renaissance Revival Pedestals and Columns

OUTSTANDING Antique French Barley Twist Honey Oak Plant Stand, Pedestal or Display Table~~35.5" Tall~~c. 1930s French oak pedestal or plant stand with 4" thick twist and round top...

CHARMING Antique French Barley Twist Plant or Fern Stand, Pedestal or Display Table~~Open Twist~~c. 1930s French dark oak pedestal or plant stand with 4" thick twist and round top...

OUTSTANDING Antique French Barley Twist Oak Pedestal, Plant Stand, or Newell Post~~57" Tall~~~c. 1880s TALL French HIGHLY CARVED pedestal or plant stand with grapevine carvings~~...

EXQUISTE Antique French Oak Corner Corbel Hanging Wall Shelf or display Pedestal~~circa 1880s Fabulous French flourish accents with canted corners and...

OUTSTANDING Antique French Pedestal, Plant Stand or Display Table~~49.5" Tall~~c. 1880s TALL French HIGHLY CARVED pedestal, plant stand, o...

OUTSTANDING Antique French Barley Twist Dark Oak Plant Stand or Pedestal ~~47" Tall~~c. 1880s TALL French oak pedestal or plant stand with highly carved grapevine accents~~THICK ...

OUTSTANDING Antique French Pedestal, Plant Stand, or Display Table with Marble Top~~48" Tall~~c. 1880s TALL French HIGHLY CARVED pedesta...

A marble column (pedestal) with a bronze Corinthian capital. Height 118 cm. Width 30 cm. Weight 68 kg.

Each with green and cream colored marble. Square tops with tapered column with applied panels, plinth base.

A finely carved pair of Renaissance Revival oak pedestals. Each pedestal features a finely carved lions mask to each side supporting wrought iron ring handles. Possibly Ameri...

Pair of Italian Renaissance style (17th Cent) walnut carved swirl design pedestals with carved Corinthian style capitals

Outstanding antique French mahogany plant stand, planter, pedestal or display table~48.5" tall~~~c. 1890s Tall French highly carved planter with vase formed urn, burlwood inlays,...

"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...