WOODTURNER'S MASTERPIECE - TEMPIETTO OF SIX, EBONY COLUMNS

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Reference: 30309

Signature: Dethon

Era: Mid-20th Century

Valuation:
1000 - 1200 €

Woodturner's masterpiece; Tempietto of six, ebony columns with ivory rings on a tri-stepped, round base decorated with a checkered marquetry. Holding a roof in the shape of a turned disk surmounted with a dome of 22 alternating sections of walnut and light wood.
The temple, on a baluster, contains a "mystery sphere" with ten openings encasing a pointed octehedron.
The dome is surmounted by another prowess containing stellated dodecahedron with conical points.

Mid-20th Century work, Signed Dethon.

Height: 38 cm (15 in.) - Diameter: 24 cm (9-1/2 in.)