Object Description
A set of Anglo-Ceylonese specimen wood campaign wall shelves in a travelling box, of rectangular form with four graduated shelves and a carved cresting with scrolls centred on a shell, the shelves in satinwood, nedun, kadumberiya and sappoo, with gadroon carved edges, supported on turned spindles with finials also in differing woods including: palm, panolo and hora, the majority of the woods named in ink, the whole can be dismantled and packed into the original nedun wood box. Ceylon (Sri Lanka), circa 1870. The shelves: H 36 ¾ in W 36in D13 ¾ in The box: L 39 ½ D16 ½ in