An 18th Century Carved Pelican Cabinets & Storage Dorchester

Dorchester

manufacture and originality

Rewired with three core antique brown fabric covered cable

A brass bound mahogany campaign desk top stationary or letter rack

H:16 W:24 D:26 CM

An 18th Century Carved Pelican Cabinets & Storage DorchesterThe carved fruitwood Pelican mounted on a simple arched cupboard door with block painted stars on a blue ground to the interior. An exceptionally well carved and preserved example with remnants of the original painted surface. H: 49 W: 33 D: 15 CM H: 26 W: 12. 9 D: 5 INCHES. The imagery of the mother pelican striking or vulning (from the Latin vulnerare, "to wound") her breast to feed her nestlings to prevent starvation in time of famine is rooted in