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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRONZE AND PORPHYRY HURRICANE LANTERNS each with later tapering circular glass storm shade with twin gilt collars and later gilt brass nozzles, on draped Egyptian caryatids with Nemes headdress, the reverse engraved with stylised hieroglyphics, on stepped square porphyry base mounted with ribbon twist and berried laurel and centred by later grecian masks, possibly Baltic, first half 19th Century

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRONZE AND PORPHYRY HURRICANE LANTERNS each with later tapering circular glass storm shade with twin gilt collars and later gilt brass nozzles, on draped Egyptian caryatids with Nemes headdress, the reverse engraved with stylised hieroglyphics, on stepped square porphyry base mounted with ribbon twist and berried laurel and centred by later grecian masks, possibly Baltic, first half 19th Century
28½in. (72.5cm.) high (2)
Provenance
CMW 6 June 1991, lot 21, BI at ¨3,800 (5-7,000 estimate), and owned by Duboff

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