European Furniture and Decorative Arts

This item is currently disassembled into seven pieces for storage and will need to be re-assembled by the buyer. There is a metal rod running through the components for assembly. The base having a minor hairline crack in the bottom, to the figures and a few negligible flake chips to the figures. There is a broken section where the next element joins and old glue residue along the break. A few sections of fill on the acanthus leaf portion and the other connecting decorative trim elements. One of these connecting trim elements with an old glue repair along a break. The putti figures near the middle of the column have areas of restoration and repair to their hands and arms. Additional images are available upon request.

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