Anglo-Ceylonese specimen wood campaign shelves in a travelling box

44 Anglo-Ceylonese specimen wood campaign shelves in a travelling box

The shelves: Height: 36¾in (95.5cm) Width: 36in (91.5cm) Depth: 13¾in (33.5cm) The box: Length: 39½in (100cm) Depth: 16½in (42cm)

This unusual set of shelves comprises four graduated rectangular shelves and a cresting carved with scrolls centred on a shell. Each shelf is made of a different wood, including satinwood, nedun, kadumberiya and sappoo, all with gadrooned edges. They are supported on turned spindles with finials also in differing woods including: palm, panolo and hora. The majority of the woods are identified in pencil and the whole can be dismantled and packed into the original nedun wood box. Ceylon (Sri Lanka), circa 1870.