A Superb French Caen Limestone Carving in the Form of a Hooped Crown c.1840-60 sub-Art & Sculpture presented in the original gilt

presented in the original gilt frame

peony and other blooms

The canvas in tea green

having a typical long panelled cupboard door with an unusual brass clench fisted handle

It has therefore been in three or four pieces and then iron riveted in the late 19th or early 20thc century to ensure its memory can live on

A Superb French Caen Limestone Carving in the Form of a Hooped Crown c.1840-60 sub-Art & Sculpture presented in the original giltOrigin: French Period: 2nd Empire Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1840 60 Height: 6. 5 Width: 9. 75 Diameter: 8 The unusual and well carved mid nineteenth century Caen limestone stone carving in the form of a regal hooped crown, having an unusual inverted dipping half arch to the globe, possibly lacking the monde finial lost in antiquity, the circlet with a fleur de lys motif band to a lower stepped band, the whole surviving in weathered condition from