FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Details
A PAIR OF ITALIAN GILTWOOD TORCHERES
First half 19th Century
Each of a Chinese figure surmounted by a later circular gadrooned edged top above an up-turned lotus leaf spray, one figure a man with long moustache and braided hair, the other a woman wearing a fillet in her braided hair, both holding castagnettes, on a spreading circular plinth with grotesque horned masks above scrolling feet clasped by dragons and surmounted by a flowerhead, minor restorations to extremities, refreshments to gilding
66½in. (169cm.) high (2)
First half 19th Century
Each of a Chinese figure surmounted by a later circular gadrooned edged top above an up-turned lotus leaf spray, one figure a man with long moustache and braided hair, the other a woman wearing a fillet in her braided hair, both holding castagnettes, on a spreading circular plinth with grotesque horned masks above scrolling feet clasped by dragons and surmounted by a flowerhead, minor restorations to extremities, refreshments to gilding
66½in. (169cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Donald Random Murphy, sold Christie's New York, 18 September 1990, lot 67