High Relief In Polychromed Oak, Very Well Carved: Tournament Of Knights In Confrontation

Spectacular and beautiful richly carved oak panel depicting a confrontation in a Knights Tournament in full dress, with all the Emblems of their belonging the Duke of Brittany facing the Duke of Bourbon. An exceptional high relief richly decorated with interlacing acanthus leaves, the symbols of this Chivalrous combat and all the visionary magic of the Middle Ages: horses with the skirt of belonging, haume and its floating attributes, swords and puzzle, dressed armor...&c... The background decorated with a checkerboard of diamonds with stylized flowers, at their feet the shields and twisted ribbon of ornament, not to mention the rich upper Gothic ornamental motifs and at the base... A prodigious work of sculptor without a gouge error, precise in volume and a beautiful polished finish, not to mention the choice of resistant wood extremely hard to master; the soft and light polychromy to enhance everything for this medieval "High Relief" as desired, everything is there in our dreams of Chivalry of valor and honor, that of our childhood, there suddenly reproduced. A formidable decorative asset for this piece of high curiosity a Work of an enthusiast from the first half of the 20th in very good condition wood "hard petrified without attack of parasites...