This handsome antique Chippendale pole screen has a smooth column with an urn form finial on a tripod base with an elaborately turned and carved post. The post has ring turnings with a fluted and bead decorated shaft above a rope twist urn with a foliate cuff. The shaft is joined to three cabriole legs with carved foliate scroll knees and foliate carved slipper feet. The column and base retain a wonderful dark old finish. The column is fitted with a glazed oval screen panel having a cross banded frame. The panel is set with a polychrome silk embroidered long stitch needlework of a cornucopia with an elaborate bouquet of assorted floral blossoms on a black silk ground.
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