"Framed In Gilded Wood With Columns, Red Velvet Background, Terracotta Altar. Italy 19th Century"
Charming Italian terracotta altar presented in its gilded wooden frame in an arch with columns, chiseled with a beautiful retouch (gold leaf), Italy late 19th century. On a beautiful red opera velvet, this terracotta study represents a Gothic style altar with a pediment and pierced by an open niche, with sides decorated with columns, at the base the entablature decorated with a frieze. On the sides of the volutes in support decorate the returns, under the arched pediment a canopy suspended in pleated curtain. Of a beautiful shaded pink color, marbled, this small majestic architecture offers a decoration worthy of a "Cabinet of Curiosities" of good taste in good condition and strongly imbued with the Gothic style in all its most precious ...