European Furniture & Decorative Arts

Description:

Continental Carved, Painted, and Part-ebonized Walnut Wall Shelf, late 19th century, demilune top carved with leaftips and supported by two satyrs centered by a mustachioed man, all about carved C-scrolls and leaftips, ht. 26, wd. 27 3/4, dp. 12 1/2 in.
Estimate $1,200-1,800

Top with scratching, minor denting and with rubbing and chipping along front edge; gold paint appears to have been touched up; moderate usage wear and age typical imperfections.

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