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Carved and Gilded Italian Shrine
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Carved and Gilded Italian Shrine

19th century
Description

Circa 1880. A carved and giltwood Italian freestanding shrine. The top surmounted by a gilded coronet, with carved and gilded drops suspended beneath. Behind the coronet there is a scallop shell and foliate carving. The main structure consists of four fluted columns with foliate carving on each side. There is small flat surface in venetian red, where the statue or bust may have been placed, with a carved gesso fore-edge all on a solid base section with inscribed gilding.

Physical Dimensions
Height
115cm (45.28")
Width
68cm (26.77")
Depth
33cm (12.99")
Declaration

Georgian Antiques has dated this Gilded Italian Carved Shrine to the Victorian era.

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SA857237
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30362
Description
Circa 1880. A carved and giltwood Italian freestanding shrine. The top surmounted by a gilded coronet, with carved and gilded drops suspended beneath. Behind the coronet there is a scallop shell and foliate carving. The main structure consists of four fluted columns with foliate carving on each side.
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There is small flat surface in venetian red, where the statue or bust may have been placed, with a carved gesso fore-edge all on a solid base section with inscribed gilding.
Georgian Antiques
Height
115cm (45.28")
Width
68cm (26.77")
Depth
33cm (12.99")
Date of Manufacture

Georgian Antiques has dated this Gilded Italian Carved Shrine to the Victorian era.

Reference Numbers
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SA857237
Dealers Internal Ref
30362
Georgian Antiques
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Carved and gilded Italian wooden shrine featuring fluted columns, a raised platform base, side scrollwork, and an ornate crown top.
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Archive I Carved and gilded Italian wooden shrine featuring fluted columns, a raised platform base, side scrollwork, and an ornate crown top.

Carved and Gilded Italian Shrine

Archive II Carved and gilded Italian wooden shrine featuring fluted columns, a raised platform base, side scrollwork, and an ornate crown top. View II
Archive III Carved and gilded Italian wooden shrine featuring fluted columns, a raised platform base, side scrollwork, and an ornate crown top. View III
Archive IV Carved and gilded Italian wooden shrine featuring fluted columns, a raised platform base, side scrollwork, and an ornate crown top. View IV
Archive V Carved and gilded Italian wooden shrine featuring fluted columns, a raised platform base, side scrollwork, and an ornate crown top. View V
Archive VI Carved and gilded Italian wooden shrine featuring fluted columns, a raised platform base, side scrollwork, and an ornate crown top. View VI
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Carved and gilded Italian wooden shrine featuring fluted columns, a raised platform base, side scrollwork, and an ornate crown top.
Carved and Gilded Italian Shrine
Ref: SA857237
Carved and gilded Italian wooden shrine featuring fluted columns, a raised platform base, side scrollwork, and an ornate crown top.
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An Italian gilded devotional shrine is an architectural niche or micro-structure created to hold religious statues, crucifixes, or reliquaries in private chapels or churches. Popular during the Baroque and Rococo periods, these structures featured classical architectural motifs such as columns, crowns, and scrollwork embellished with gold leaf.

These pieces were typically carved from softwoods such as pine or poplar, coated in multiple layers of gesso, and burnished with red bole prior to gold leaf application. Architectural components like fluted columns, carved crowns, and scrollwork were carved individually and assembled using traditional joinery.

Authentic Italian Baroque pieces display hand-carving variations, subtle oxidisation of the gilding, and visible red bole showing through areas where the gold leaf has worn naturally. Joinery often incorporates hand-forged iron or wooden pegs alongside age-consistent timber contraction.

A carved gilded shrine serves as an architectural statement piece on a sideboard top, console, or mantelpiece. Interior designers often use the framed space to display contemporary ceramics, mineral specimens, or singular decorative objects to contrast with modern surroundings.

Gilded surfaces require dusting using a dry camel-hair brush to prevent lifting delicate gold leaf. Water, liquid cleaners, and solvent polishes must be avoided completely, as moisture dissolves underlying gesso layers and permanently damages the surface finish.
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