Important Christmas Fine Art Auction: Haute Epoque, Jewels and Colonial Treasures
Lote 306:
In gilded wood, to mount on a lamp. Solomonic column belonging to the structure and decoration of a baroque altarpiece belonging to the 17th century. This piece, originally, would be attached to the altarpiece structure, therefore, polychrome can only be seen on the visible side; On the other side you can see the carved but naked wood, without gold or pigments. The shape of the column is Solomonic, that is, it twists and rotates its structure around its own axis. The entire surface is decorated with polychrome leaf litter in green tones. In addition, after the carving work it was gilded with 24-karat fine gold.
