Lot Essay
The acanthus-wrapped scrolled base is typical of the Louis XIV style, seen particularly on torchères of the late 17th Century. André-Charles Boulle (d. 1732), ébéniste du Roi, published a design for a torchère with a similar scrolled base in his Nouveau deisseins de meubles et ouvrages de bronze et de marqueterie inventés et gravés par André-Charles Boulle, chez Mariette, plate 4 (illustrated in J.-P. Samoyault, André-Charles Boulle et sa Famille, Geneva, 1979, pl. 9).