An Unusual Late 19thC Italian Carved & Painted Jardinière Stand sub-Curios he never lived it down

he never lived it down

William John Warner

found conventionally in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance

and various other contraptions that have captivated people for centuries

An Unusual Late 19thC Italian Carved & Painted Jardinière Stand sub-Curios he never lived it downOrigin: Italian Period: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Height: 33 inches Top Diameter: 21 inches (all at extremities) The unusual and well carved and painted Italian softwood jardinire stand, modelled as a campagna top set with a Japanese Imari charger, raised on a turned and carved column of three carytids with tripod C scroll supports survives from the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This piece has a life history