Antique Pair 17th Century Baroque Carved & Gilded Solomonic Columns Italy 1680 Sculpture obelisks and other decorative items

obelisks and other decorative items from Ashford Black Marble during the late 18th and early 19th century

His son says he learned silverwork at Dean Kirk’s trading post in Manuelito in the early 1950s

He was classically trained at The Royal Academy

To the top is a "swan's neck' pediment

Antique Pair 17th Century Baroque Carved & Gilded Solomonic Columns Italy 1680 Sculpture obelisks and other decorative itemsA fine and rare pair of Italian Baroque carved giltwood and polychrome painted Solomonic columns, late 17th century, circa 1680. Each spiral twist column carved with trailing grapevines and bunches of grapes, the decoration carved and gessoed and gilded on the polychrome columns. Each column with a Corinthian capital to the top and raised circular base with a square hand painted plinth, with polychrome scagliola technique, designed to resemble veined