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CIRCA 1780
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU TWO-LIGHT LAMPE BOUILLOTE
Circa 1780
The later adjustable green tle shade with bifurcated foliate finial, above a pierced lyre-shaped stem garlanded with laurel and issuing sunflowers and foliate-cast arms with similar flowers and urn-form bobches with removable pearled drip-pans, the fluted columnar shaft above a domed base cast with rosettes, bow and quiver and Caduceus and torch reliefs emblematic of love and Fame, on a domed spreading socle edged with acanthus and ropetwist, one branch lacking
21in. (53.5cm.) high
Circa 1780
The later adjustable green tle shade with bifurcated foliate finial, above a pierced lyre-shaped stem garlanded with laurel and issuing sunflowers and foliate-cast arms with similar flowers and urn-form bobches with removable pearled drip-pans, the fluted columnar shaft above a domed base cast with rosettes, bow and quiver and Caduceus and torch reliefs emblematic of love and Fame, on a domed spreading socle edged with acanthus and ropetwist, one branch lacking
21in. (53.5cm.) high