A PAIR OF ITALIAN BRONZE TORCHERES

FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

Details

A PAIR OF ITALIAN BRONZE TORCHERES
First half 19th Century
Each with circular well with leaf moulded rim and palm-leaf wrapped base, the ring-turned fluted and spirally-fluted shaft wrapped with acanthus leaves, on a concave-sided tripod base with a coat-of-arms of the Jablonowski Walewski family on each side, on three paw feet, restorations, previously fitted for electricity
56 in. (142 cm.) high; 17 in. (43 cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Stanislaw Pawel Jablonowski (1762-1822) and Theodora Walewski (d. 1826) or their children.

Lot Essay

The coat-of-arms on the base of these torcheres are those of the Polish family of Stanislaw Pawel Jablonowski and his wife Theodora Walewski who married either in 1784 or 1792, or could be those of one of their children.

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