A PAIR OF MID-VICTORIAN PAPIER-MACHE EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT SIX-LIGHT TORCHERES

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A PAIR OF MID-VICTORIAN PAPIER-MACHE EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT SIX-LIGHT TORCHERES

Each with acorn finial above a stiff-leaf corona, the canted square platform decorated with mother-of-pearl inlaid foliage issuing scrolled branches with urn-shaped nozzles with foliate caps, the whole supported by a vine-wrapped central baluster shaft flanked by four further tapering ring-turned supports with pomegranate finials, above a further corona and on foliate-decorated canted square spreading plinth with stiff-leaf moulding and foliate pad feet, on a later ebonised plinth, one nozzle lacking with some later gold overpainting
22in. (56cm.) wide; 75in. (190.5cm.) high; 20½in. (52cm.) deep (2)

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