each bookend capped with a head of a spartan soldier with helmet showing the crest, dome and faceplate; all resting on a square plinth; some surface abrasions and chipping
each carved wood and parcel-gilt corbel adorned overall with lively foliate scrolls; fitted with striking polychromed majolica masks depicting Bacchus, the Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility; one blue-eyed, the other brown-eyed; wear and chips to ceramic; overall wear and patina to gilding
each large scaled triangular element of scrolling anthemions composed of a well-patinated verdigris copper; some repaired seams and indentations; with later shelves to top.
with rectangular shelf above a dramatically scrolling body adorned with an over-scaled acanthus leaf ending in a scrolling volute; patination to gilding.
