Beautifully carved small wall bracket shelf probably designed to accommodate a small bracket clock or carriage clock.
Fine quality carving! Probably dating from the early 19th C. Almost certainly an early example of Black Forest, or Austrian, carving depicting a small bird on a nest within an oak tree setting., topped with a small shelf with elaborately shaped edge., all finished in gold paint.
Measures 23 cm wide with a depth of 12 cm and with a height of 13 cm.