Three Mudejar Carved Wooden Corbels, Toledo, Spain, 13th-14th Century

intricately carved with groups of small six-petalled rosettes, a large palmette framed within a vine scroll with stylised vegetal terminals, two carved on three sides, the other carved on two sides 

In generally good condition, halted insect activity, surface wear and deterioration associated with age, otherwise carving clear and skilful, as viewed.
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Markedly similar examples are to be found in the collection of the Hispanic Society of America, New York (see Ecker, H., Caliphs and Kings. The Art and Influence of Islamic Spain, Washington, 2004, pp.64-6 and 146-147, no. 56). Ecker notes, "Perhaps most striking in the design of these corbels is the curved palmette that sweeps back from the top volutes like the prow of a ship, in Spanish, canecillos de proa, between two vine tendrils that project outward as points.... This type of corbel appears to have been typical of Toledan production and is completely different from the corbels that have survived in situ in Granada, for example." (ibid., p.147). Further examples are to be found in the David Collection, Copenhagen (von Folsach 2001, p.271, fig.437).