A PAIR OF GILTWOOD AND GESSO TORCHERES, designed in the Empire manner, each with a circular top, with egg-and-dart moulding above a pierced and foliate frieze, supported on a fluted vase-centred stem bound by rings to the three 'sphynx' scrolled-monopodiae with 'psyche' wings, on concave-bead moulded trefoil foot, late 19th century

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A PAIR OF GILTWOOD AND GESSO TORCHERES, designed in the Empire manner, each with a circular top, with egg-and-dart moulding above a pierced and foliate frieze, supported on a fluted vase-centred stem bound by rings to the three 'sphynx' scrolled-monopodiae with 'psyche' wings, on concave-bead moulded trefoil foot, late 19th century
52in. (132cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

An identical gilt-bronze model is illustrated and discussed in C. Payne, 19th Century European Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, p 258.