A Decorative Victorian Painted Wood Faux Scagliola Marble Pedestal c.1870 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope having a circular gilt metal

having a circular gilt metal frame with scrollwork and yellow glass panels

which may well be something religious

There is a chair dated to the same year to this pair in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in New York

the female personification of Britain

Ready to display

A Decorative Victorian Painted Wood Faux Scagliola Marble Pedestal c.1870 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope having a circular gilt metalOrigin: English Period: Mid Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Height: 53 Base: 11. 5 square Top: 8. 5 square The very decorative column, in softwood and well painted to imitate fine scagliola marbles, the cylindrical column on a square section base and once positioned in a country house estate, surviving from the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The column is in good overall order, with light scuffing and one chip to the main column,