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<p>[QUOTE="alex webb, post: 738663, member: 10737"]i would have called it baroque so its italian too. the strapwork is splashed with baroque motifs and i would call the columns baroque but i think thats eqyptian lotus buds?? on the column bases and pilaster? [which they carry on in the frieze? but which would make more sense flipped upside down as simulated corbels up there considering]. but my eyes are not great. maybe they are feathers or something else....</p><p><br /></p><p>anyway the panels are very nice but the masks on the panels don't match. very strange. the pilaster is a flying pilaster and that does not compute architecturally. it should also be appreciated in the crosshead unless there is a pediment really. this is more like the package.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.um1800.de/Schranke%20201-250/sch221%20Louis%20Seitze%20Schrank%20Nussbaum/m/m01.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>i think luigi and his brother mario and his other brother mario salvaged many panels and columns and pilasters and mouldings and made themselves what we used to call some figurati! but its still worth goodly dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="alex webb, post: 738663, member: 10737"]i would have called it baroque so its italian too. the strapwork is splashed with baroque motifs and i would call the columns baroque but i think thats eqyptian lotus buds?? on the column bases and pilaster? [which they carry on in the frieze? but which would make more sense flipped upside down as simulated corbels up there considering]. but my eyes are not great. maybe they are feathers or something else.... anyway the panels are very nice but the masks on the panels don't match. very strange. the pilaster is a flying pilaster and that does not compute architecturally. it should also be appreciated in the crosshead unless there is a pediment really. this is more like the package. [IMG]https://www.um1800.de/Schranke%20201-250/sch221%20Louis%20Seitze%20Schrank%20Nussbaum/m/m01.JPG[/IMG] i think luigi and his brother mario and his other brother mario salvaged many panels and columns and pilasters and mouldings and made themselves what we used to call some figurati! but its still worth goodly dollars.[/QUOTE]
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