A Pair of Fabulous Quality Victorian Carved Rosewood Pole Screens. The near square screens having woolwork panels; each decorated with a bird amidst flowers & foliage to the centre with shell motifs to the corners on a black ground, set behind glass in a carved frame surmounted by a pierced pediment rail with sprays of berries & leaves entwined in scrolls and centred by a scallop shell. The baluster pediment boldly carved with layers of crested leaves rising up from a turned base and tripod of cabriole legs with voluted foliate crested feet, 57½'' (146 cm) high, 23'' (58 cm) wide.

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