Live Auction 9750Carpets, English and Continental Furniture, Tapestries and
A gilt bronze torchere
Lot 304

A gilt bronze torchere

PROBABLY FRENCH OR ITALIAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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GBP 1,410

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A gilt bronze torchere
Probably French or Italian, late 19th century
In the antique manner, the circular platform supported by winged sphinx, the chain swagged draped stem on triform base
56in. (142.2cm.) high

Specialist note

The candelabra with sphinx-capped pillars relate to a bronze antiquity found at Herculaneum and exhibited in the Museum at Naples. Replicas of the Herculaneum candelabra feature in the 1910 catalogue of the bronze-founders Messrs J. Chiurazzi & Fils and D. De Angelis & Fils of Naples, no. 73033.