A Decorative Pair of Carved Pine, Plaster & Gesso Painted Corinthian Capital Wall Brackets c.1800 antiques Depth: 6 inches (at maximum

Depth: 6 inches (at maximum – base)

“The Prince was such a powerful toper that six bottles after dinner scarce made a perceptible change in his countanance”

crafted in the mid nineteenth century and later sold by Percy Whale of Leamington Spa in the 1960s

A portrait of him was painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence in 1805

A Decorative Pair of Carved Pine, Plaster & Gesso Painted Corinthian Capital Wall Brackets c.1800 antiques Depth: 6 inches (at maximumOrigin: English Period: George III Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1800 Height: 14. 25 Width: 18 Depth: 6 (each and at extremities) The very decorative pair of painted Corinthian capital wall brackets, having aged rust brown paint to each over earlier Georgian red and green, with copiously carved acanthus leaf decoration in plaster and gesso over a pine carcass, each with flat shaped tops, and surviving in the classical taste from the early part of the