A Colourful Pair of c.1900 Polychrome Carved Wooden Indian Architectural Supports sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles In sailing ships there was

In sailing ships there was usually one placed on each quarter abaft the mizzen chains and in mechanically propelled vessels there is one on each side of the navigating bridge secured to the deck margin plank

Overall Width: 22

- Maltbie Davenport Babcock

chips and cracks but this is nothing short of desirable to many

Mordan patented the propelling pencil in 1822

A Colourful Pair of c.1900 Polychrome Carved Wooden Indian Architectural Supports sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles In sailing ships there wasOrigin: Indian Period: Late Nineteenth Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 1900 Height: 30 & 31 inches (one with loss) Width: 10 inches (at maximum) Depth: 4. 5 inches (at maximum) The polychrome painted softwood supports carved and pierced as scrolling leaf and foliage with much of the original paint remaining, displaying vivid blues, reds, greens and yellows, terminating in oval top plinths and pegs to the other ends. Condition