Renaissance Revival Walnut Hall Tree With Cast Relief Plaque, Dante'S Inferno

Lot description

Italian Renaissance Revival carved walnut wall-mounted hall tree, late 19th c., having shield and ribbon crest, over open shelf with dentil molding and repeating rosettes, seven gilt-metal hat/ coat hooks, encircling inset cast plaster relief plaque, with a figural scene from Dante's Inferno, inscribed "Onorate l'altissimo poeta inferno Cant. IV (Honor the highest poet in hell, Canto IV)," flanked by protruding cherub brackets, terminating on openwork scrolls, typical small losses to crest and raised elements, approx 34"h, 65.25"w, 10"d