LUCCA, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN FRUITWOOD AND EBONISED TORCHERE
Lucca, first half 19th Century
The circular dark-veined grey marble top above a spreading cylinder with a gadrooned base and acorn finial, supported by three Greek female herm-supports on foliate paw feet and joined by vertical X-shaped stretchers centred by a medallion, on a canted concave-sided triangular plinth on turned feet, damages
18 in. (46 cm.) diam.; 58 in. (147 cm.) high

Lot Essay

This athénienne is based on antique bronze prototypes. A set of four nearly identical parcel-gilt torchères of circa 1810-1820 with flowerheads below the figures and differing feet, originally from the villa Marchi in Lucca, is illustrated in A.M. Massinelli, Il Mobile Toscano, Milano, 1993, p. 97, fig. 173.

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