
Black Forest Pair of Corner Shelves Original Hand-Carved Switzerland Late 1800s
Antique Item
Black Forest Pair of Jardinière’s hand carved in Switzerland during the late 1800s. The Jardinière’s are complete with their original metal liners and are ready to be planted. Black Forest Furniture first began to appear in the mid-1800s in Brienz, Switzerland and originally only included small Black Forest animal objects made for the tourist trade. In the late 1800s, as tourism traffic increased, so did the number and Size of Black Forest Carvings and soon thereafter was followed by Black Forest Furniture. As luck would have it, Old Plank has recently discovered a treasure Trove of Black Forest Carved Furniture all from one Chateau in France. The French Chateau had a magnificent collection of over (40) pieces of Swiss hand carved Black Forest Furniture. All of our Black Forest Furniture collection will to be listed on 1stdibs.
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. Minor losses. Will have some slight imperfections.
**Width and depth provided were taken at the feet. The diameter of the top is 13" and the diameter of the liner is 9.38".