A George II Period Carved & Gilded Wood & Gesso Fragment c.1730 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles designing lamp standards which were

designing lamp standards which were set up on the Thames Embankment ‘at the landing place between Waterloo and Hungerford Bridge’ in 1870 and lions’ heads for ‘the pedestals both on the north and south side of the river’

dramatic and refined

with the textile having no holes

the plaster figures showing the Madonna and Child in standing position survives from a pre-Victorian period ecclesiastical setting

A George II Period Carved & Gilded Wood & Gesso Fragment c.1730 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles designing lamp standards which wereOrigin: EnglishPeriod: George IIProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1730Width: 45. 5Depth: 6Height: 12 (all at extremities & with backing board)The giltwood and gesso hand carved fragment, still of good imposing size, having been part of a larger composition, showing a heraldic eagle amongst foliage and a large flower head to a scaled sea serpent all above a helix twist frieze, having remnants of a pully or wench system to the reverse, possibly surviving from