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19TH CENTURY
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A NORTH ITALIAN ETCHED CIRCULAR SHIELD, IN THE STYLE OF CIRCA 1560
19th Century
Convex with a flat rim and turned edge, decorated with cabling interrupted by baluster mouldings, etched with bands of interlaced foliage radiating from a stylised calyx in the centre, all on a contrasting blackened hatched ground, fitted with small pinecone finial studded with lining rivets with iron rosette heads (the enarms and lining missing).
22¼in (56.5cm)
19
Convex with a flat rim and turned edge, decorated with cabling interrupted by baluster mouldings, etched with bands of interlaced foliage radiating from a stylised calyx in the centre, all on a contrasting blackened hatched ground, fitted with small pinecone finial studded with lining rivets with iron rosette heads (the enarms and lining missing).
22¼
Provenance
The Executors of Mary Sophia Kirkby Fenton, London, 1925
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