Pair of George III Giltwood Wall Brackets

Each with a removable brown and white serpentine marble top supported on a gessoed and water gilded carved oak and stylized palm leave brackets. The gilding is dry and subtle with gr...

Luigi Frullini was a very famous Florentine furniture maker and carver. He had many commissions all over the world and was exhibited at world expositions. He did the library and dining room at Chateau-sur-Mer in Newport. He also had commissions from Queen Victoria's daughter and the daughter of the Grand duchess of Russia .Frullini is represented in many museums throughout the world. Paper labels on reverse. These were likely intended for a dining room or wine cellar. Each with a face one a faun and...

Featuring a figure of a man holding a book with his legs crossed. Shelf with trapezoid shape top.

With oval upholstered backs and bowed upholstered seats raised on circular tapered legs. In the manner of John Linnell.

A magnificent pair of late 18th century George III giltwood wall brackets fashioned as bunches of lilies suspended below festoons of 7...

A sumptuous pair of George III carved giltwood wall brackets, the lavishly carved supports having highly detailed and delightful carving of rosa centifolia, the Rose of Provence ben...

Pair of rare 19th century Italian carved and gilt wood bat form wall brackets. Original gilding. As found. Rare and wonderful. Neoclassical and Gothic, in ...

A spectacular and exceptionally rare pair of English, possibly Irish, George III circa 1800 wall brackets or shelves in 'Rustic' style, the cusped shaped tops in original 'red ochre' paint with period brass hanging tabs, the tapering 'bodies' composed of fully gilded twigs and rootwood in original finish. Provenance: The collection of Sir John Boorman at The Glebe, Annamoe, County Wicklow, Ireland. The 'Rustic' style in design emerged in Great Britain from the 'Picturesque' movement within Romanticism of the 18th century as a quiet rebellion against the formality of Baroque and Neoclassical architectural styles and was largely ephemeral due to it's inherently specific application; that it being intended for the 'cottage orné', follies, and grottos of the landed gentry. Frances Collard states "Rustic furniture, particularly that made of untrimmed branches and roots, appeared in the designs of Thomas Chippendale and Thomas Johnson and were featured in an anonymous work published by Josiah Taylor's 'Architectural Library, "Ideas for Rustic Furniture", from 1790-5". The Duke of Buccleuch...