A Well Carved Mid-19thC Anglo-Indian Hardwood Jardinière Stand sub-Religion & Relics The large clear glass bottles

The large clear glass bottles having square cut stoppers with original labels in Latin reading AQ: SAMB: FL

designed to hold layers of cigars

the neck and base with double ruled borders to the neck and base

but importantly

giving Van Meegeren the title of ‘the man who swindled Goering’

A Well Carved Mid-19thC Anglo-Indian Hardwood Jardinière Stand sub-Religion & Relics The large clear glass bottlesOrigin: Anglo Indian Period: Mid Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1840 60 Height: 36 inches The Base: 18. 5 inches Basket Diameter: 16 inches (all at extremities) The elaborately carved and later ebonised jardinire stand, modelled as a latticed woven fruit basket, with foliation, fruit and flowers to the rim raised on a turned and carved acanthus leaf column, on a four splayed base to claw feet, survives from the middle of the