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Pair of wall brackets

Four of these brackets, each fitted with a vase-shaped top, originally hung in the trelliswork garden room of the Franckenstein Pavillion at Schloss Seehof, near Bamberg.

Credit: The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973...

c. 1763-64
Carved, painted and gilded basswood
73.7 x 50.8 x 15.9 cm
1974.356.123,.124
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020

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